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Can BOGOF Save British Science?

‘Buy One Get One Free’, known in the trade as BOGOF, is one of the supermarkets’ favourite tools to make us spend more money – most of us can’t resist something for nothing, sometimes even if we don’t really want it. So we were excited to learn last week that a similar technique has just scored […]

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Those Generous Brits

We all know that Americans are the most generous givers. But are they really? A new report about family foundation philanthropy in the US, UK, Germany and Italy, by the recently established research centre on charitable giving at London’s Cass Business School, is a welcome contribution to the rather thin field of international comparisons of […]