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 It is common knowledge that most brands of disposable nappies take more than 100 years to break down, which is a strain on landfills.

I hate doing laundry - so buying washable nappies was not an option I considered. Instead I use a German brand of disposable nappies called Moltex Eco (or Moltex Oko in Germany). They do not contain any chemicals, like most brands on the market, and they are

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Pretty good start Boris. No howlers, well none bad enough to have reached front page news so far. And the first policy statement is to ban booze on public transport.

A few years ago I would have found this totally outrageous and a huge infringement of my civil liberties but now I welcome any initiative that seeks to prevent another innocent teenager being stabbed for glancing in the wrong

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AKA the little known poison pill of marrying a British person.

When two British people marry and one of them subsequently dies, perhaps prematurely, the survivor inherits their partner's estate without being subject to taxation - in particular Inheritance Tax (IHT).

Unfortunately this is not the case when a foreigner has married a British person. In all likelihood, Inheritance Tax will be levied on

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The Wisdom of Crowds phenomenon is demonstrated when you ask people to estimate the number of jellybeans in a jar. Their average estimate is usually quite close to the truth; indeed, the average guess is far better than the the vast majority of individual guesses - in other words, the collective is smarter than the average person within the collective.