Monthly Archives: February 2011

            I was sent an interesting email this week. It came from someone who knows how the changes at a particular  quango are going. It makes worrying reading.           The bottom line is that spending goes up in the short term in order to achieve a closure of a quango and the transfer of [...]

              A favourite nursery song gives topical Labour  advice to Ministers: “If you go out in the woods today, You’re sure of a big surprise. If you go out in the woods today You’d better go in disguise”           I am a tree hugger. I like trees. I love looking out at a wooded vista. [...]

                 Roughly half of all the money spent is in the public sector, and half in the private sector.  Around one fifth of all the public money spent is borrowed.  The other fourth fifths comes from taxing the private sector.                 Most people now agree we cannot carry on borrowing at the rate we [...]

                    Yesterday the Minister for Europe told the Commons that the EU is going our way. He believes that EU Ministers generally now understand that too much law and regulation is holding back enterprise and job creation across the continent. He looks forward to a rosy future, where the advantages of a common market [...]

                    My two grandfathers were working class. They both lived in rented accommodation, and earned their living from a skilled trade. They both spent teenage years in the trenches in France fighting for their country.   One, a farrier, had to become a labourer for the electricity company when horse shoeing went out of fashion. The [...]