Proud to be British Read more from journalists who champion our culture, history and values Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. |  | Lauren Davidson Executive Money Editor | The Government has made no apology for coming after those it deems to have “the broadest shoulders”, increasing taxes on second homes, private education and capital gains – with more pain widely expected in the Budget, confirmed last week to be held on Nov 26.
Chances are you have been caught out by one of Labour’s anti-wealth policies. You may not feel like you deserve to be targeted, but compared to everyone else, are you rich?
Our tool, which has been packed with new data, is designed to answer that very question. It explores different measures of wealth to reveal where you stand compared with your neighbours, your age group and the rest of the country.
Enter a salary of £50,271, for example, which just tips you into the higher-rate income tax bracket. You earn more than 82 per cent of taxpayers in Britain. That’s more or less on par with veterinarians, who earn an average of £49,470. It’s about twice as much as a cleaner (£22,961) – but less than a train driver (£63,958), senior civil servant (£88,970) and the Mayor of London (£170,282).
Tell us about other measures of wealth – including properties, pensions and investments – as well as who’s in your household (high-earning spouse? wallet-draining children?) and we’ll tell you which of five categories you fall into, ranging from “working your way up” to “top of the money pile”.
So, how broad are your shoulders – and can they bear what Sir Keir Starmer calls “a heavier burden” come the November Budget? Try our tool and let us know here. How rich are you? Find out here ➤ | | Debra Tate has dedicated her life to upholding justice for her sister Credit: David Wills | Sharon Tate’s murder and the grisly acts of the acolytes of Charles Manson are some of the most notorious crimes in modern history. So when we asked Chris Campion to write the story of Tate’s younger sister Debra we felt sure it would resonate.
Campion has been working with Debra Tate for five years as she has fought tirelessly on victim impact statements and attendance of legal hearings to block the parole of those evil men and women who plotted and enacted the brutal slaughter of her sister.
Tate once met Charles Manson face-to-face, while he was in prison awaiting trial. She wanted to get a sense of the man and told Campion that she looked into his eyes and “they were dark and they were still. And you could not see a freaking thing. Nothing in there. Deep black pools of nothingness”.
In this exclusive interview, she talks in detail about the psychological burden that the Manson family’s crimes and the loss of her sister has created. But, as Campion explains, Tate, now 72, is compelled to continue her campaign because the current US prison system considers the murderers “rehabilitated”. As Debra Tate says: “These people have all had the word ‘psychopath’ in their mental evaluations. Every single one of them. Rehabilitation is not in their nature.” Read the full story here ➤ | | Jake Wallis Simons Our freedoms are no longer inherently our own, but granted begrudgingly by the establishment Continue reading ➤ Con Coughlin Cooper’s first job as Foreign Secretary is to undo Lammy’s shredding of our relations with Israel Continue reading ➤ Michael Deacon In the year 2000, one man foresaw today’s woke tyranny. If only we’d all listened Continue reading ➤ | Time spent wisely See another side to today’s biggest stories with Britain’s leading comment writers Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | The private school system was created by Britain and it’s one of our country’s biggest success stories. It helped deploy soft power around the world and became a middle-class aspiration. Now it is being undermined and its influence lost to savvier nations – thanks in part to Labour’s VAT raid but also to the Government’s schools strategy. Continue reading ➤ | | | After being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at the age of 24, Luke Grenfell-Shaw knew he didn’t want to die without ever experiencing true adventure. Six years later, despite his prognosis and the tragic loss of his brother, Luke tells us how cancer completely rewrote his life path – and motivated an unforgettable journey from Bristol to Beijing. Continue reading ➤ | | | In a world where men are so often depicted as being assertive and emotionally restrained when it comes to sex, it’s not often you hear them talk about sexual relations with honesty and sensitivity. But as new research shows many men are plagued with performance anxiety, we hear from three men of different generations talking openly about what they worry about when it comes to their sex lives. Continue reading ➤ | | | Instead of spending a sweaty summer in New York and shipping their daughters off to American summer camps, Sara Ganim and her husband brought their children to London for their holiday. From navigating the Tube to finding a new appreciation for air conditioning, Sarah’s family experienced a better quality of life in the capital. Continue reading ➤ | | | Returning as the forthright Isobel Crawley in the final instalment of Downton Abbey, the wonderfully no-nonsense Wilton reflects on a life on stage and screen – and why the death of her friend Maggie Smith means it is time to leave the show behind. Continue reading ➤ | | | Every Sunday, Sarah Knapton, our Science Editor, and Joe Pinkstone, our Science Correspondent, demystify your supernatural experiences. From ghoulish encounters to bizarre coincidences, there’s always a scientific explanation and nothing is as strange as it seems...
A baffled reader writes...
“My mother was in a coma and on the point of death in a hospice. At about 3am I heard her speaking to me in a dream saying she was very tired and wanted to go.
“I felt compelled to answer her by telling her it was alright to let go and she should go. It seemed she needed my approval.
“At about 9am the following morning the hospice phoned to tell me she had died in the night – at about 3am.”
Sarah and Joe answer...
We are sorry to hear about the death of your mother, but glad that you felt that you had, in some sense, eased her passing.
It is interesting that you mention 3am, a time traditionally referred to as the “witching hour” when otherworldly entities are said to be at their most active.
The association with the supernatural stems from religious beliefs that Christ died at 3pm in the afternoon, therefore the time furthest away from this holy hour would logically be 3am.
You do not say if you woke up at this point in your dream and realised it was 3am, or whether you only dreamt it was that time.
However there is a good reason why you might wake up then. In a normal night’s sleep, it is around 3am to 4am when our neurobiology starts to shift.
Read more about Sarah and Joe’s conclusion here ➤ | | There are few destinations more alluring than the Indian Ocean. From the glamorous resorts of the Maldives and world-class beaches of the Seychelles, to the culture of Sri Lanka and the wildlife of Madagascar, the region is hard to beat, particularly when the dark nights roll in at home. With the seasons changing, here is our pick of the region’s best holidays for a dose of winter sun.
Below are two more articles that I hope will brighten your weekend: | Free thinkers wanted Discuss and debate today’s biggest talking points, directly with our journalists Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | The Duchess of Kent died in Buckingham Palace on Thursday, aged 92 | Although she is perhaps less well-known to a younger generation, the Duchess of Kent in the 1960s and 1970s was a much-loved and prominent member of the Royal family, writes Andrew M Brown, Obituaries Editor. She played a vital role travelling overseas to attend independence ceremonies across Africa and the Caribbean, but never sought the limelight.
She was extremely elegant and always immaculately dressed and, as our obituary notes, she was something of a style icon, photographed by Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson and Patrick Demarchelier.
Later on she was best known to the public as a popular fixture in the royal box at Wimbledon, displaying her natural empathy when warmly comforting Jana Novotná after she lost to Steffi Graf in 1993.
She carried out her royal duties with total commitment but was also happy to work away in the background, as when she spent 10 years teaching music in a primary school in Hull, where she was known simply as “Miss Katharine”. She started a charity, Future Talent, to support young musicians, and, after becoming a Catholic, threw herself into the life of her new church. Though she was frail in her last years, her lovely smile never left her, as we say in the obituary, which you can read in full here.
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Get a head start on today’s Cross Atlantic by cracking this clue: Yesterday’s Panagram was PERFUMERY. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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