Hournalism

Shame Is a Game Worth Playing

Max Wind-Cowie | Posted 26.08.2012 | UK Politics
Max Wind-Cowie

Jimmy Carr is a man who has done nothing illegal. He used a loophole - a complicated and sophisticated but wholly legal loophole - to avoid paying tax on a huge proportion of the wealth he earns from trotting out snazzy one-liners. Should we, as so many on the left urge us to, immediately leap to legislate away aforementioned loophole? No.