'net Assets (5th March Edition)

Today’s top stories from and about the CPS as well as some of the top content from the wider political web.

CPS

• Today the CPS released a report into the proposed ‘Mansion Tax’ by Lucian Cook of Savills - Taxing Mansions: the taxation of high value residential property
• Director Tim Knox has written for Conservative Home on the report - A mansion tax is unfair, unconservative and wouldn't raise much money
• Ryan Bourne highlighted some key questions for mansion tax advocates to consider, sent in by one of our readers - Questions for Mansion Tax supporters

Mansion Tax coverage:

• Mansion tax would lose more money than it would generate, think tank report says – The Telegraph
• Mansion tax would raise ‘only £1bn’ – The Times
• Taxing homes more isn’t the answer - Allister Heath, City AM
• As well as Daily Express, Daily Mail, Yorkshire Post, Sky News and Money Marketing.

• The Spectator published an article on UK drug policy and cited CPS research - Bad habits

(Read the 2009 report ‘The Phoney War on Drugs’)

• On Friday evening, Kathy Gyngell blogged for the Daily Mail’s Right Minds section - Our children are told to 'partition' then 'chunk' - no wonder they can’t add up

Seen elsewhere

A selection of good reads seen online today by the CPS team.

Politics

• Cameron stands firm on alcohol price move – Financial Times, £
• The Tory masterplan to win 36 seats from Labour and 14 from the Liberal Democrats – Tim Montgomerie, Conservative Home
• More people would rather David Miliband ran Britain than brother Ed – Metro
• Vladimir Putin victory 'a decisive result' says No 10 – The Independent
• Ken Livingstone v Boris Johnson: the February truth audit – Andrew Gilligan, The Telegraph

EU

• Is the new European Union video racist? – Katy D, Blottr

US Politics

• Why Santorum Can't Pull Libertarian Voters: Because He Thinks Like a Liberal and Wants to Legislate Morality – Reason
• The Vetting, Part I: Barack’s Love Song to Alinsky – Andrew Breitbart’s final column, breitbart.com

Business

• Carlos Slim, Mexican telecommunications tycoon, is world’s richest man – New York Daily News

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Date added: Monday 5th March 2012