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Who really should have won Time’s Person of the Year?


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In MetroTalk: Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for a second time, beating Elon Musk and Catherine, Princess of Wales to the title (Picture: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Who really deserved to be Person Of The Year?

Gisele Pelicot is being hailed as a feminist hero in France (Picture: CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gisele Pelicot should be top of Time magazine’s Person Of The Year list (Metro, Wed).

The 72-year-old waived her right to anonymity and went to court where she faced her now ex-husband and the 50 men he allowed to rape her after he drugged her unconscious.

She wanted the public to know what happened and for her attackers, not her, to feel shame. She wanted other rape victims to be able to come forward. She is courage personified. Gill Watson, Brixton

Farmers protest inheritance tax changes – but are they really the victims?

A reader asks why farmers are complaining – they were already exempt from inheritance tax (Picture: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Farmers paid nothing for 40 years’
Farmers once again took their protest to Westminster over changes to inheritance tax (Metro, Thu). It’s a bit rich that farmers – unbeknown to many people – were exempt from inheritance tax in the first place.

This exemption, it turns out, was given to them by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1984.

I am not rich but my property is worth more than £500,000. Even if my children inherit it, they have to pay 40 per cent tax on anything over that amount.

For 40 years, farmers paid nothing, now some will have to pay 20 per cent and they still feel hard done by.

We all know that many of them will still not have to pay anything so their protests are typical of many of them who are very well off, wanting it all.

Also it’s pitiful that they are highlighting the suicide of farmers being caused by this.

Over the past 40 years, we have had numerous reports on the high level of suicide rates of farmers and that has been when they paid no inheritance 
tax, so I am not sure that this is an honest argument. Corin, London

King Charles choice to go meat-free helps more than his health

The King gave up red meat to keep cancer at bay (Picture: Jonathan Brady – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

‘Upgrading from meat to vegan foods helps spare gentle animals’
It is unsurprising that King Charles has decided to ditch red meat following his treatment for prostate cancer.

Studies link red meat – particularly processed meats – to increased risks of all manner of ailments.

Eliminating red meat is thought to reduce one’s risk of many forms of cancer, as well as heart disease and Alzheimer’s, and adding fibre from plants will undoubtedly mean better digestive health (and less time on the other throne).

But importantly, upgrading from meat to vegan foods helps spare gentle animals from short, miserable lives on filthy factory farms and painful …read more

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