Monthly Archives: April 2009

Labour’s pathetic efforts to counter the power of the blogs that criticise this ghastly regime has now done them grave damage. Those of us who deal with this government day after day know that senior figures who should be devoting most of their time to running the government devote disproportionate amounts of time to trying [...]

One of the problems this government has is with the word discrimination. They fail to distinguish between bad discrimination and good. Let me hasten to reassure all those researchers and spin doctors for Labour who are out to get me that I do strongly condemn racial and religious discrimination as they do. I have no [...]

For a decade now we have been sold the mantra that public spending is investment and that every penny of it is well spent and well judged. If any of us suggested some of the spending was wasteful, or inappropriate, or not a priority we were immolated in the fire of rhetoric claiming wrongly we [...]

The hapless MPC members are still drawing their huge salaries, and not a whiff of an apology for failing to hit their inflation targets for months, nor a hint that they recognise they contributed to the crash through their boom-bust monetary policy. Now they are firmly back in boom boom mode. This time they have [...]

We learn today the government wants to give some taxpayers money to charities for political campaigning. Surely the government could hold some meetings with charities to find out what they want, without giving them money to run ads to tell them?

I am now being asked if we should join the Euro to have stability and more financial discipline! Have people learnt nothing? The Irish experience shows why the answer is a thousand times “No”. Ireland joined the Euro with an Anglo-Saxon economy in very different shape from the German. For several years it gave her [...]

Wow! If you add Obama spin to Brown spin you get quite a movement. Between them their spin machines helped lift world markets and get people talking of green shoots of recovery. Now the spin machine has moved on. The spin was just for the summit. They leave investors with their losses and companies struggling [...]

Offering another drink to an alcoholic because he promises to sober up next year is not necessarily a kind thing to do. Offering too many loans to a debtaholic just puts off the day when he has to start paying it all back, and makes that task more difficult. One of the ideas behind quantitative [...]

Today life has got dearer again. Postage has soared, with the cost of a second class letter rising from 27p to 30p. I make that an 11% increase. It follows hard on the heels of the typical Council who want an extra 5%, and the railways who pushed their fares up by 6% (regulated) and [...]