Do you want to see the bankers pay?

Dear Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer,

We call on you to draw up a plan for a windfall tax on banks

The tax-payer spent billions saving the banks, placing a major strain on public finances

If banks can now make billions in profit and award huge bonuses they can afford to start paying back the money spent to save the sector

The entire banking sector benefited from the Government propping up the sector, it's only right that they all pay back the money spent to save them.

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How corrupt is your country? - check out the full list of 180 countries

Corruption Perceptions Index 2009

• The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) table shows a country's ranking and score, the number of surveys used to determine the score, and the confidence range of the scoring.
• The rank shows how one country compares to others included in the index. The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public-sector corruption in a country/territory.
• The CPI is based on 13 independent surveys. However, not all surveys include all countries. The surveys used column indicates how many surveys were relied upon to determine the score for that country.
• The confidence range indicates the reliability of the CPI scores and tells us that allowing for a margin of error, we can be 90% confident that the true score for this country lies within this range.

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The BBC invited us to write a Six Word Memoir

YOUR SIX WORD MEMOIRS

Already hundreds of you have emailed your own ideas about how to sum up a life in just six words. Below are just a few of them. You can also submit your writing to Smith magazine, which is already working on a second collection.

Three sons, eleven cats, and Yvonne.
Michael Govan

Foetus, son, brother, husband, father, vegetable.
Dick Hadfield

Conceived,implored, employed, adored, retired, ignored.
Joy MacKenzie

Beginning, gurgly. Middle, sombre. End, gurgly.
Roger Noble

Jennie, Emma, Jane, Sophie, Rose, happiness.
Peter Graham

Slow lane. Fast lane. Hard shoulder.
Alex Hansen Today.

Bantam, Anglia, Midget, Alfa, Volvo Estate.
Neil Feldman.

PM. The World Tonight. Sleep?
Stephen Brady

Womb, Play, Learn, Work, Decline, Tomb.
Jacquie Smith 

Start - programme - error - control - alt. - delete.
Alan

Outside lavatory, worked hard, now flush.
Ashley Errington

Battered ball-bearing traversing pinball machine.
Nancy Connolly

Unravelled career reknitted as baby blankets.
Clare Hobba

Started, farted, stood up, faced the wind.
Helen Eclair

Dot, two, six, three, one, wicket.
Tony Powell

Head in books, feet in flowers.
Heather Thomson

Trust me, I did my best.
Ray Kemp
 

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I know its out of date but - but they are wonderful.

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Camera Club - How to take a Jane Bown portrait | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

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Deism Defined, Welcome to Deism, Deist Glossary and Frequently Asked Questions

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Elsa Dorfman, portrait photographer – see her extraordinary ‘life-map’

The portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman has this wonderful ‘life-map’ as a way into her extensive site

This is a wonderful alternative to the brilliant work of Paul Foreman – whose site is HERE

 

 

 

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Is this the best ever DVD on photography?

The BBC made a series on photography that in my view was nothing less than brilliant.

 

To read other reviews and get more information click HERE

The BBC shop might actually be cheaper (untypically!)

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