From midnight tonight homebuyers will only pay stamp duty on the proportion of the property price above new reformed thresholds.
Where this puts the challenge of a new, reformed England is something which can only bring new question marks against the belief that England are just one universally approved appointment away from solving most of their serious problems.
TO HEAR the voice of the new, reformed Microsoft, the one that no longer acts like a bullying monopolist but like a responsible industry leader devoted to the public good, talk to Brad Smith, its general counsel.
Looking at the great movie again, I wondered how far its vision of infinite bureaucratic wasteland was exaggerated or true to the new reformed Japan that the United States had done so much to establish.
While the conflict raging in his recently discovered soul has turned this new, reformed Dexter into a more complex character, he's not as much fun as the howling madman who used to get out his knives whenever the full moon rose.
Listen to Mark Driscoll, the New Reformed pastor of Seattle's Mars Hill megachurch: "I know who made the environment," he reportedly said in an April conference.
