Great Sums of Money
Ferdinand Mount: Swingeing Taxes, 21 October 2021
The Dreadful Monster and Its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021
by Julian Hoppit.
Allen Lane, 324 pp., £25, May,978 0 241 43442 0 Show More
by Julian Hoppit.
Allen Lane, 324 pp., £25, May,
“... federal structure and a proportional system of election so that never again could we concentrate power at the centre, but you took neither of these for yourselves.’ Canadians and Australians could say much the same: the entrenched powers of their provinces and states remain the lynchpins of the remarkably successful federal systems bequeathed by their ... ”