Monthly Archives: November 2010

We are lucky today to have a copy of Dame Lucy’s reply to Dr Spendlove: Dr Roy Spendlove Division for Miscellaneous Projects Whitehall SW1 Dear Roy,              Thank you for your letter. You seem to be doing excellent work to ensure full compliance with best practice and world procurement standards. I do think you are [...]

The following correspondence has come into my hands. I am sure it is meant to be confidential, so please be careful with it. If we do not publish it, there might be more where it came from. It appears to be internal correspondence amongst senior officials in  government departments  I cannot trace . Dame Lucy Doolittle, [...]

One of the promises of Conservatives in Opposition was to remove needless or burdensome regulations, to allow more people to set up and grow businesses.Such general promises are always popular, and many in business feel they do have to spend too much time and money on compliance with regulations which do not help them be [...]

               The tea party movement had to explain to the Republicans as well as to the Democrats that a government  can spend and borrow too  much, and print too much money. If you do those things to excess, far from  having a more prosperous economy and a fairer society you have an economic crisis. [...]

                This week’s main economic  event will not be the US elections, but the decision of the Fed to print more dollars. In expectation of more electronic greenbacks government  borrowing rates have been driven lower, assets generally have risen a bit in price, and money has flowed strongly into the emerging market economies of [...]

Several bloggers have asked what I am going to do about the EU. I will continue to do what I have been doing for years. Set out the facts. Make the case to change our relationship. Put the Eurosceptic position in the Commons. I explained before the Election that if we did not have a [...]

The decisions of recent years in giving so much power away to European institutions are becoming very visible. Today the government announces that prisoners will be given the vote. This was a policy they opposed strongly in Opposition, but now accept the international court will make them do it. This week we hear of moves [...]

On Thursday night I went to the LSE to hear a lecture by ProfessorHuerta  De Soto followed by a dinner discussion with interested parties including Douglas Carswell MP  and Stephen Baker MP. They  have tabled a bill to outlaw fractional reserve banking, the practise that allows banks to lend most of the money they collect [...]