The Circumlocution Office in 'Little Dorrit', where everything became bogged down in bureaucracy, represented Dickens's visceral satire on Government. A century and a half later, it might be time for novelist José Sarney to pick up, in his own country Brazil, where Dickens left off. Brazil is a bureaucratic blast, nowhere more so than in the field…
They shoot horses, don’t they?
"It's under starter's orders - and they're off!" 2013 has scarcely made it out of the stalls and two stories are already vying for a place in the Winner's Enclosure at the annual Let's-Knacker-The-Taxpayer Steeplechase. First to gallop off the page and nearly knock out my eye was the disclosure by the Wall Street Journal that the Indian…
Tax Break 