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Taxman draws up additional plans to access your bank details

Taxman draws up additional plans to access your bank details

HMRC has awarded itself new powers to access your accounts for a year, it has been reported. The tax authority has drawn up plans to seize the account details of anyone who they claim may owe them some money. These new powers come just months after it announced that they can dip into the accounts of those it accuses of[Read More…]

‘Facebook passing user details to NSA’

‘Facebook passing user details to NSA’

Tech giant Facebook is passing details of all of its users to the National Security Agency (NSA), it has been reported. Privacy campaigner Max Schrems has launched a case against the social giant to force watchdogs to audit personal data allegedly released to US spy bosses by Facebook. Mr Schrems, argued that the Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes, wrongly refused[Read More…]

Parents banned for waving at their children

Parents banned for waving at their children

Parents who defy court orders prohibiting them to have any contact with their children – which includes waving goodbye – are routinely thrown into jail by British social services, it has been revealed. This is not just occurring in cases where parents have been found to be abusing or neglecting their children but in cases where no wrongdoing has been[Read More…]

Poor households pay more taxes than the super-wealthy

Poor households pay more taxes than the super-wealthy

Most people in the UK wrongly assume that the richer you are, the more tax you pay. A new study has helped to break down that myth and reveals that in actual fact, the truth is just the opposite. The less you earn, the greater proportion of your income in tax you pay. Sounds fair right? Right? A new study[Read More…]

Make no mistake about it, this is what Bilderberg attendees think of the ordinary man and woman on the street

Rogues gallery: This year’s Bilderberg meeting

“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I[Read More…]