The arguments between the parties about the economy , as the IFS pointed out yesterday, deal only in marginal handouts to entice voters and broad generalisations to hoodwink them. In the view of this blog here are ten questions which remain unanswered with clarity. 1 What are you going to cut and what effect will that have, not […]
Although the atrocities of Islamic State are never far from the news, the general level of media noise from both the Middle East and Ukraine is a good deal less than in the recent past. This is curious at one level because the situation in Eastern Ukraine remains dangerous and the Middle East has rarely […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. Downfall catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
That really was an awful speech. Scotland is a separate country with a separate heritage and social values, which are more inclusive and left wing than further south. Scotland is the home of the original Labour party, whose first MP was Scottish. In the last hundred years five prime ministers have been of Scottish origin. Six […]
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This blog has a lot of respect for John Major. Described by Denis Thatcher as a ‘ghastly’ Prime Minister, his wife’s choice as her successor undoubtedly disappointed her. But he had a very difficult hand to play which included Black Wednesday, loads of negative equity and a Tory party split so badly down the EU […]
No matter whether you are pro or anti SNP, or whether you love her or hate her, in a somewhat long winded and lacklustre election campaign Nicola Sturgeon is the outstanding star who has come to dominate beyond any other party leader. This is especially remarkable since she herself is not standing for election to Westminster. […]
An idea to stimulate economic growth without further government borrowing. Written in plain English and very easy to follow, this is the only really fresh approach out there to the intractable problems of the UK economy, and it is just beginning to be noticed in important places. Buy! Download only .99p Paperback £2.99 Kindle or Paperback UK […]
The dreadful loss of life of desperate migrants in the Mediterranean Sea is shockingly not unique or even unusual, but it is the worst so far and it has forced EU leaders to confront their own woeful performance in a crisis of their own making. In fact it is a crisis costing human life for which […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. Downfall catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]