From The Times correspondent
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What is freedom?
Is this freedom?
Free to go
“Apologies, but yes, you are free to go.” barked the sergeant from behind the almost closed door, whose covering of paint did nothing to hide the rich golden orange varnish which had at the first been applied to its timber and thus betrayed the not so humble origins of the previous inhabitants of the house.
Continue readingUltimately the question is not going to be: Did you hate Britain?
Continue readingOr is this just a word used badly?
Continue readingWhy is offence so easily taken?
What should the chickens do?
Did you hear the one about the chickens in the çoup?
Continue readingThere is much talk about human rights in the present age.
But there is little talk of duty.
I posit an island, in which three people live: a farmer, a merchant and a banker.
I had been introduced to Take five some time ago.
On that former occassion the gentleman concerned wished to know the sum of two digits of two. During his enquiries he called upon a banker but was left somewhat perplexed by the banker’s response.
Take six shows us the consequences of what the banker tried to explain.
Continue readingIn life there are only two certainties: death and taxes.
So it was said, but in uncertain days an accountant might need some imagination.
It has often been said that GAAP (Generally accepted accounting principals) were introduced in order to ensure: certainty comparability correlation and correspondence
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