Month: February 2011

Not why, but why now is what we should be asking about the revolts across the Arab world, says David Livingston of Thurleigh
 
 
COLONEL GADDAFI HAS been leader of Libya since a coup in 1969, Mubarak has been president since 1981, Ben Ali was President of Tunisia from 1987 until he was forced to flee the country last month and Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria is in his third term as president and has been in office since 1999. Why are so many disillusioned now by their leaders if they’ve been in power for years?

Cross-border giving just got a whole lot simpler, say Hannah Candlin and Leanne Hooper: now charity needn't begin - and end - at home
 
 
AS A RESULT of recent UK legislation following a developing body of European case law and culminating in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases of Persche, which was decided in 2009, and Missionswerk, decided in February 2011, it is now possible for UK taxpayers to make tax-efficient donations to EU charities and those in Norway and Iceland without channelling donations through a UK charity or establishing their own UK charitable foundation.