TAXES FUND SIX-FIGURE SALARIES FOR SADIQ'S SUPERFLUOUS SIDEKICKS

AMID blue skies and high temperatures, my sunny outlook was darkened by the arrival in the post of an instruction from HMRC to pay the second instalment of my tax bill for last year.

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It is not that I object to paying income tax what grates on me is that so much of the money I hand over to the state is badly squandered. In every corner of the public realm, there are chronic inefficiencies, waste and warped priorities. As if to prove the point, just moments after