29 July, 2021 â By Michael White
The Royal Albert Hall
âWEâVE got as many Plan Bs as will fit into our heads,â the director of the Proms, David Pickard, told me last week. And he probably wasnât exaggerating.
When the worldâs greatest music festival opens this Friday July 29, it will be welcomed with open arms as a return to normality after last yearâs ghost season â running for six weeks, with 61 concerts, real live audiences, and a proper Last Night on September 11.
But, as Pickard admits, âitâs a fluid situation with a lot that could go wrong: the likelihood of artists being pinged and forced to isolate is bound to trip us up, so we live from day to day and keep our options open â which is why there are still gaps in the programme that weâll fill in due courseâ.
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Sunak might copy Biden s capital gains raid – but it won t solve his problem
Some Americans will be paying tax rates of more than 50pc, the highest since the 1920s
29 April 2021 • 10:00am
Where American goes, the world follows. Does this mean President Joe Biden’s plans to raise income and capital taxes to pay for the pandemic will be replicated on this side of the pond?
The President arguably has less of a battle on his hands than Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak would. For starters, Mr Biden has not bound himself with an election “triple lock” promise not to raise income tax, National Insurance and VAT. Those three levers out of bounds leave only corporation tax with the heft to raise serious amounts of cash, which the Chancellor duly did at the last Budget.