The view from Australia
Sometimes a certain distance gives the clearest view. A piece on PM John Key from Australian newspaper The Telegraph.
‘brain’ drain
Brain drain getting younger
Oh great. Now we’re losing Kiwis overseas straight out of high school…
Tax hikes fail to cause ‘brain’ drain in UK
George Monbiot writes: It’s a bitter blow. When the government proposed a windfall tax on bonuses and a 50p top rate of income tax, thousands of bankers and corporate executives promised to leave the country and move to Switzerland(1,2). Now we discover that the policy has failed: the number of financiers applying for a Swiss work permit fell by 7% last year.