A friend of mine had his credit card overcharged by a car rental firm in Greece recently. He had it pre-authorised but when he checked the bill it was more than the payable voucher he had. However, he spoke Greek and was knowledgeable about the laws of the country. So he wrote a letter to […]
Greek taxes: a Minoan labyrinth
My latest foray to Greece and its islands was fab as usual. The September sun was shining, the sea was warm and the public discourse dominated by the tax modernisation requested by the EU, the ECB and the IMF (the ‘troïka’). The subject was the abolition of 199 taxes towards third parties imposed by the […]
The day I learned I was GCSE Material
While I was casually surfing a few weeks ago – OK, OK, I was Googling my name – I found out that one of my books, Rainbow Diary, was part of the 2012 GCSE English Lit syllabus for OCR (Oxford and Cambridge). My first reaction was disbelief. Like a good journalist , I checked. So […]