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Burnham: The Raid on Your Personal Wealth

‘Middle England’ is worried…and so it should be.  In his new role as our new PM, Burnham has, in his words ‘hit the ground running’ in his project to 'Manchesterise' Britain, and is looking for a new revenue generating target.   His ideology requires redistribution of the UK's wealth, and since most of the UK’s private money and assets are held by this disparate and normally compliant group of electors, they are firmly in his sights….. One of the problems our new PM faces, however, is that he is constrained, as was his predecessor,   by Labour’s 2024 manifesto.Without going to the country for a separate mandate of his own, he is obliged to stick to its terms. He can’t therefore raise any of the main existing tax rates without a breach. Tax thresholds are already deep-frozen, and reducing them further would cause an outcry. He also has another problem – 400 independently-minded back benchers, who already have a taste for power, and are not afraid to wield it. Many o...
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Statins – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  Many of us find ourselves prescribed one or other of the Statins by our GPs nowadays, often as a result of a routine health check. But are they really necessary, and what are the risks of taking them ? In this article, we’ll try to explain exactly what the statins are, how they work, and why the medical profession are so keen on prescribing them for us ‘en masse’. I’ll start with the ‘why’, to try to put the need for these drugs into context…. Our modern diet is rich in carbohydrates and fats, and often takes the form of highly processed ready meals, which also contain a lot of salt. The problem is that this type of ‘challenge’ to our digestive systems on a continuous basis is an issue – our guts, brains and metabolism simply weren’t designed for it, and the excess salt that most of us consume is likely to compromise our circulatory health. The explanation for this mismatch is relatively simple. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, food was scarce, and...
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