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Check the Uber app. Did you read, with Tim Montgomery.

Welcome to Did You Read the Times Opinion Podcast.

My name is Tim Montgomery, and this week I am joined by Alice Thompson, Richard Fletcher and Daniel Finkelstein.

You may have given thousands to charity and entertained millions of middle-aged women but you can't feel that good about yourself, Gary.

Take this. Some of your merry band have avoided 26 million in tax.

Did you really need that extra swimming pool?

Or could you have joined everyone else in paying for our roads, hospitals and schools?

Takeovers destroy shareholder value.

It's not difficult to find examples of it disastrous tie-ups,

but not every deal is a disaster.

And no matter how much we may dislike the idea of Pfizer taking over AstraZeneca,

and I do dislike the idea,

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