It’s December 4th, and 210 years since the day William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax to help pay for the Napoleonic Wars. By that time, The Observer (the world’s first Sunday newspaper) was already celebrating its ninth birthday.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
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2 Big Stories
MPs to go clubbing to investigate cocaine trade
The Commons home affairs committee, led by Labour’s Keith Vaz, will look at what goes on during “student nights”.
Members will look at the latest cocaine-detecting technology and talk to anti-drugs campaigners.
Labour MP Gwyn Prosser has already spent time outside a nightclub in Maidstone, Kent, as part of the committee’s preliminary research.