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August 1997 New Thinking

No representation without taxation
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Kevin Sweeney
August 25, 1997: Benjamin Franklin once said the only two certainties in life are death and taxation. In the 1980s, during the heyday of Thatcherism and Reganomics, taxation was perceived as a fundamental infringement by the state on the right of the individual to earn and spend money as they chose. More

John the website
August 18, 1997: The Internet is about relationships. Forget about computers, modems and bandwidth, the Internet is about people: person-to-person, person-to-organization, organization-to-organization. More

Yards and metres
August 11, 1997: ‘Give him a centimeter and he’ll take a kilometer’ somehow doesn’t seem right. ‘Are you going for a liter’ just doesn’t ring true. And how many of us think of ‘going the extra kilometer’ or saying to a foe, ‘not another centimeter?’ More

An American Internet?
August 04, 1997: When I was in France a couple of years ago it struck me how most of the people I met who were involved in Internet developments there were American. I was informed that the most popular website for Paris at that point was located in Chicago and was run by someone from Chicago. More

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