In July that year he shot dead a young bodyguard and a week later killed a woman he wanted to

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Published: October 9, 2010

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In July that year he shot dead a young bodyguard, and a week later killed a woman he wanted to seduce at the presidential palace because she refused to give a blood sample for an Aids test.Although Uday held a seat in the Iraqi parliament and was in charge of many organisations, it was Qusay, more stable than his brother, who was being groomed as Saddam’s successor.Adel Darwish. Until we give museums proper purchase funds and encourage private donations with better tax breaks, we will keep on with the game of pictures or other artefacts being threatened with export unless millions are raised to save them. Every few months, the art world goes through a screaming crisis about some picture or other threatened with export unless millions are raised to save it. So here we go again with Raphael’s admittedly delectable Madonna of the Pinks, which the Duke of Northumberland is planning to sell to the Getty Museum in the US unless more than £20m can be found to keep it here.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has now agreed to stump up £11.5m, leaving the National Gallery to raise the rest Is the picture worth it? No one can say for certain. Would the money be better spent on hospitals? Pointless to ask. But could the money have been used more effectively to buy works (German Expressionists, for example) where Britain’s collections are less well represented than Raphael? Quite possibly.

The trouble is that, until we give museums proper purchase funds and encourage private donations with better tax breaks, we will keep on with this game of export blackmail and emergency pleading.. Gordon Brown should ask himself whether his entirely correct wish to avoid fraud, concentrate welfare payments on the most needy and avoid poverty traps has led him to create a regime that is complex and cumbersome. According to the Commons Select Committee on the Treasury, some applicants for child tax credit “have not received the service from the Inland Revenue they were entitled to expect” That is something of an understatement. Some 220,000 applications for the credit remain unresolved and the Inland Revenue has had to make nearly 200,000 emergency payments, running to tens of millions of pounds. The incompetence has hurt many low-income families.
The main problem identified by the committee was a faulty computer system, the responsibility of a private company, EDS.

Apportioning the blame between EDS and the Inland Revenue – and the cost of putting things right – may turn out to be a matter for the courts. The MPs raise “serious questions” about the leadership of the Inland Revenue and the breakdown in communication between ministers and senior civil servants. However, the taxpayer, who has seen so much money squandered on this project, is entitled to ask why the Inland Revenue was asked to administer the child tax credit. The Inland Revenue is not geared to run a social security system. That is what the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is for.

Tellingly, the pensioners credit, when it is introduced in the autumn, will be run by the DWP rather than the Inland Revenue. That does not necessarily mean it will run smoothly, but at least any difficulties will be faced by a department well used to navigating such complicated matters.Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, has launched an inquiry into the running of the Inland Revenue, which may help explain why so many things have gone wrong there lately. The inquiry should find out who decided to land the Revenue with a task it was so ill-equipped to carry out. Mr Brown should ask himself whether his entirely correct wish to avoid fraud, concentrate welfare payments on the most needy and avoid poverty traps has led him to create a regime that is complex and cumbersome. Spot checks, for example, are a cheaper way to deter fraud than asking all claimants to supply large quantities of original documentation. The pre-budget report in the autumn would be a good moment for Mr Brown to signal a willingness to simplify the system.. For the occupying forces in Iraq, the incontrovertible end of Saddam’s heirs promises a new beginning.


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