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Inheritance Tax – Is everything we know about “Britain’s most hated tax” wrong?

Read any paper to the right of The Guardian and you’ll see furious condemnation of “tax raids” on “grieving families”, and a Labour plot to destroy the Middle Class and farmers via the “hated” inheritance tax “trap”. Yet IHT makes up only 0.7% of Government revenue and fewer than ...  Show more

 . 32min 20sec

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Inheritance Tax – Is everything we know about “Britain’s most hated tax” wrong?

Read any paper to the right of The Guardian and you’ll see furious condemnation of “tax raids” on “grieving families”, and a Labour plot to destroy the Middle Class and farmers via the “hated” inheritance tax “trap”. Yet IHT makes up only 0.7% of Government revenue and fewer than ...  Show more

 . 32min 20sec
Don't mention the war! – Start Your Week with Rafael Behr and Jacob Jarvis

Trump’s war in Iran continues and Britain’s right wing gang are desperate for Starmer to get more involved despite the obvious reasons not to. Why are they cheerleading what could be another disastrous and drawn out conflict in the Middle East? Rafael Behr joins Jacob Jarvis to d ...  Show more

 . 33min 30sec
Stuck In The Middle East With You – Weekly Wrap-Up with Jonn Elledge

Rounding up the stories of the last seven days… Trump shatters international law, triggers a conflagration across the Middle East and insults Keir Starmer into the bargain. Also: Shabana Mahmood doubles down on immigration harshness after the Gorton & Denton disaster. The Fall of ...  Show more

 . 33min 24sec
Elon Musk's A.I. gamble – Could it destroy him?

Elon Musk is betting big on artificial intelligence. But is this a visionary leap forward, or a high-stakes gamble? His latest move is to merge SpaceX with his A.I. lab xAI, consolidating his companies’ finances and laying the groundwork for something even more ambitious: satelli ...  Show more

 . 27min 20sec
Reform’s “British ICE” — Why it would never work

Last week Zia Yusuf, floated a headline-grabbing idea: a British version of America’s deeply unpopular ICE. Today on The Bunker, Zoë Grünewald speaks to Sunder Katwala, director of British Future and author of How to be a Patriot, to unpack what a “British ICE” would actually mea ...  Show more

 . 30min 26sec