JENNI Murray’s latest book, A History Of Britain In 21 Women, could be described as a kind of single-sex space. For here, in her series of short chapters on significant British women, from Boadicea to Nicola Sturgeon , there are only women, or, to be more precise, only “cisgender” women, in other words women who are not trans.
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Hammond under pressure for U-turn on self-employed National Insurance hike
Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to back down on a A 2 billion National Insurance hike for the self-employed, as former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith added his voice to calls for a rethink of the move. In a round of post-Budget broadcast interviews, the Chancellor insisted that the decision – along with a cut in tax-free dividend allowances which will also hit the self-employed – was “fair and appropriate”.