Is the Answer to Be Found in Wordsworth? ; Letters

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It is difficult for us country folk living in Cornwall to understand the ways of those in big cities. So when a bank is reported to be paying only 2.4 per cent corporation tax, we wonder why footballers with advertising contracts have their fees paid into private equity funds and then pay 28 per cent corporation tax instead of the 40 per cent rate of income tax. Shouldn't they ask the bank to fix it for them ? Then again, we hear of a bank that makes a loss of over a billion, then pays its executives that amount in bonuses, in addition to their over-generous salaries, but we must not try to regulate these matters, or they will take their business elsewhere. If, as proposed, we freeze the assets of the Gaddafi family, surely no selfrespecting Arab dictator will ever again hide the personalised share of his country's wealth in the City of London.

Perhaps we should resort to poetry for the answers. But we are in trouble again. In verse 3 of Hills of the North we read "Lands of the East, awake, Soon shall your sons be free; The sleep of ages break, And rise to liberty." Now that sounds like criticism of an unreformed medieval religion, or encouragement to freedom fighters to overthrow their rulers.

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Is the Answer to Be Found in Wordsworth? ; Letters

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