Assessment of the Deal

Parry is by a long chalk the upper classes' favourite wedding composer, even if they've never heard of him. That's not because he wrote I Was Glad, splendid though it is, but because he composed the tune to Jerusalem, without which no Sloane order of service is complete. It is the only hymn that Hugo and Cressida can belt out without needing to glance down at the words.And we'll hear it today, along with Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - safe choices not just for the upper classes but for any wedding in Middle England where most of the guests spend Sunday mornings reading the papers, not the lesson.

And, while we are at it, we should cut the top rate of tax too. Raising the top rate to 50% was done for political reasons not economic ones, the main problem being that the political reasons were bad ones. The problem with soak-the-rich tax policies is that they don't work. Personally, I couldn't care less if Tracey Emin leaves Britain but we ought to be worried about the hedge fund advisers who are taking the same route to our lower taxed neighbours. And if you are a football fan ask yourself why the world's best players either won't come to England (Kàka) or have left England (Ronaldo) and you'll discover that part of the reason is that our tax rates are so much higher than Spain's. As the Tories are actually committed to keeping the 50% rate I sense an opportunity: cutting top rate tax could bring in more revenue, wrong-foot the Tories and make English football clubs more attractive in the January transfer window. What's not to like?Ingredients

With , meanwhile, he managed to capture the agony of a dying soldier, in one final, coiling fight for life. In a neat juxtaposition, the warrior legs apart is displayed facing in similar pose, splayed and serpentine on her bed. The implication? That theres a latent sexual force to Moores work and that, perhaps, he was as versed as Bacon in the competing Freudian forces of Eros and Thanatos.

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