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...Tim Snaith, partner at law firm Winckworth Sherwood, said intestacy rules, which govern the distribution of an estate when someone dies without a will, do not make any provision for a surviving cohabiting...
...who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicising the men and women of our armed forces,” Mr Mullen said Mr Trump was also criticised by the African-American Republican senator Tim...
...Charles Ingram lost his army commission. They were ideal tabloid cannon fodder: Tim-Nice-But-Dim and his Lady Macbeth. It helped that they seemed posh....
...Tim Stovold, partner at Moore Kingston Smith, says some of his clients have already said they plan to leave the country in anticipation of the possible CGT changes....
...Kay Ingram, a chartered financial planner at LEBC, a financial adviser, reminds people to make use of their spouse’s CGT allowance to double the amount above which the tax becomes payable....
...Tim Harford draws Brexit lessons from the wreck of the Torrey Canyon oil tanker. Sometimes the idea of changing tack becomes literally unthinkable....
...It is both wrong and dangerous to think that Russia and China can never be friends Ingram Pinn’s illustration of the week: Seeing Red Saudi Arabia’s fury at Canadian criticism Undercover Economist: How...
...Tim Harford writes about the art of political brinkmanship. Donald Trump, Theresa May and other elected politicians are threatening harm to their own countries as a bargaining tactic, he points out....
...Tim Harford provides a guide to having an actually happy Christmas: keep the spending under control and invent your own social rituals....
...Gideon Rachman Walking with the Hondurans chasing the American dream — Jude Webber Tech’s unhealthy obsession with hyper-targeted ads — Rana Foroohar The untold career advantage of a little bit of luck — Tim...
...Tim Harford contends that the case for drip-feed investing is plausible, but costs more....
...Tim Harford writes that technology can be the friend of creativity. Most ideas used to be shut down early, but digitisation allows many to survive....
...Tim Harford salutes the Ig Nobles, the prize that glories in weird ideas that often turn out to pay dividends....
...Tim Harford says he learnt an important lesson on holiday this summer: that variety is an aid to creativity....
...Tim Harford asks what megaprojects like the construction of the Sydney Opera House or government IT programmes can teach us about the biggest public policy challenge in Britain for a generation: Brexit....
...Tim Harford looks at different ways to measure inequality. He writes, "Bill Gates has more money than I do. JK Rowling sells more books. Katy Perry has more Twitter followers. Usain Bolt is faster."...
...Inventing the internet Tim Harford explores how governments can foster innovation by looking at a small arm of the US Defense Department, the Advanced Research Projects Agency agency, which has been credited...
...Tim Harford asks why such bad people end up in such important positions and concludes that the Peter Principle is right: “every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”....
...Tim Harford argues that advances in satellite imagery, data mining and the widespread use of mobile phones is fundamentally changing the nature of economics and will move it from being largely theoretical...
...Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called the plans a “naked power grab”, while Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said Theresa May, prime minister, is facing months of parliamentary “hell”....
...Going once Tim Harford is frustrated by his struggle to buy tickets for Korean pop sensations BTS and floats the idea of using auctions to sell everything from houses and cars, to the land needed to expand...
...Shoot 'em up: The multiplayer video game Fortnite is the latest online phenomenon to sweep across playgrounds and living rooms, writes Tim Bradshaw....
...forecasts: When people are asked to predict the likelihood of a specific event, they systematically misremember what they expected in ways that make them look more prescient than they really were, writes Tim...
...Hawking’s example: Scientist Stephen Hawking, who died this week, had much to teach us, and not just about his academic speciality of physics, according to Tim Harford....
...Yet, as Tim Harford argues in his latest Saturday column, that does not mean economists should give up on the pursuit of happiness. In fact it might be more necessary than ever....
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