Monthly Archives: February 2010

The BBC’s fixation with global warming produced a new insight this morning. It opened up a whole new line of questioning for the Green movement, which left their spokesman advocating that people should have a higher carbon footprint, for fear of sounding as if he wanted to kill off all the much loved cats and [...]

Last night at a meeting I felt the need to remind people just why we need change, and why that change has to be the Conservatives. Everyone has their ideal view of what the next government should do, say and be like. It will soon be time to live in the real world, and recognise [...]

Readers of this site will not be surprised that world markets are starting to tell individual governments that they are borrowing too much. If there has been a surprise, it has been the delay before markets wake up and force changes on reluctant administrations. The sloth of markets to say “No” to excess will just [...]

Last night I gave a lecture to 300 professional and business people in the Sainsbury Wing of the National gallery. I presented my views on the true origins of the Credit Crunch and the continuing errors of monetary and fiscal management. No one in the discussion which followed queried my thesis that the Monetary and [...]

Will the MPC make honest people of us at last? With inflation well over 3% and rising it is high time they said “No” to more easy money for a government awash with too much debt and wasting far too much money. They should grasp that recovery requires a private sector, export and savings led [...]

If you needed more evidence of Labour spin and their continuing influence on the media I invite you to consider the lop sided discussions of public spending cuts. There is just one relatively small departmental budget that is crawled over endlessly for spending cuts – that of defence. It just happens to be the only [...]