Billionaires and other investors who rewild agricultural land in the UK may no longer be liable for inheritance tax on the property when they die thanks to changes announced in the budget....
Linked to an archive because the original is behind a paywall 👎...
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Natural England and the Environment Agency (EA) should be stripped of their responsibilities, two former Cabinet ministers and grassroots Tory activists have urged....
There is some China bashing but it’s an informative article and it was hard to know what to quote....
The NYT home page says the news is ~5m old.
Women living in camps for refugees of Bangladesh’s war of independence were told a local care home would look after their children. Decades on, many are still searching for them...
No way cops will misuse technology, right? anakin-padme-2
Leader Kim Jong-un has called for amending Pyongyang’s constitution to classify South Korea as the “No. 1 hostile country”...
During the two years I spent putting together my book A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History, I had no luck uncovering Lynch’s script for Dune II, despite Frank Herbert telling Prevue magazine in December 1984 that he possessed a copy and was advising Lynch on it. “Now that we speak the same...
Original (pay-walled): www.nytimes.com/…/tech-startups-collapse.html
Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has reduced entire neighborhoods to dust. The resumption of fighting and intensified airstrikes on southern Gaza after a week-long pause could mean that even more of the territory could meet the same fate....
The gas chambers were invented in part because the Nazis did not much enjoy the actual process of killing Jews as much as Himmler hoped they might. As Laurence Rees notes of Himmler in 1941, “He had observed two years before the psychological damage that shooting Jews at close range had caused his team of killers and so he had...
Die Rolle als Corporate Influencerin mache Naz Dhar freiwillig „on top“, also zusätzlich zu ihrer täglichen Arbeit als Teamleiterin im Marketing. Oft sei das abends, wenn sie ihre Kinder ins Bett gebracht habe und auf der Couch liege. Manchmal würde sie auch richtig abdriften, versinken in die Welt der Selbstdarstellung...
Industry urges government to extend ‘cheese letters’ before post-Brexit terms expire on December 31
Industry urges government to extend ‘cheese letters’ before post-Brexit terms expire on December 31
The first two paragraphs...
Sahra Wagenknecht möchte der AfD Wähler ausspannen. Der Politikwissenschaftler Wolfgang Schroeder ist sich unsicher, ob das gelingen kann – fürchtet hingegen schwere Zeiten für die Parteien der Mitte....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6837465...
The IOC said in statement that Russia’s decision to claim regional sports organizations in occupied areas of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, areas which should be under the authority of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee, as members was a breach of the Olympic Charter....
