Monthly Archives: September 2011

I reproduce the latest government view set out by Damien Green  of how they intend to bring immigration under control, in view of the great interest in this subject: I am writing with a further update on the Government’s radical changes to immigration policy and on the action we are taking to bring down levels [...]

                 Mr Darling’s book is an important contribution to the UK debate. It confirms what was so strongly denied at the time – many in the Labour party thought Mr Brown was a disastrous Prime Minister. He argues that Mr Brown did operate through a small cabal, was extremely political in everything he did, [...]

                 Mr Darling’s book is an important contribution to the UK debate. It confirms what was so strongly denied at the time – many in the Labour party thought Mr Brown was a disastrous Prime Minister. He argues that Mr Brown did operate through a small cabal, was extremely political in everything he did, [...]

               We are having a lot of weather these days. We have just had another cool summer with lots of rain in August. Where have all those predictions of long hot dry summers gone?              We did have a dry spring with warm middles to the day, but even then mornings and evenings were [...]

              This old canard is back on the agenda. It is being placed there by  the Leader of the Opposition, seeking to portray the Prime Minister as “same old tory”. Meanwhile many Conservatives, perhaps helpfully from his point of view, say the Prime Minister is not Conservative enough. They define Conservative according to their [...]

              There are rumours circulating in the USA that the authorities are thinking of a back door way of reviving quantitative easing.              The aim would be to sell the mortgage portfolio held by the Fed, so they could use the money released to buy yet more US Treasury bonds.             The plan might include  seeking [...]

         In the late 1990s when there was huge pressure on the UK to join the single currency, prominent Germans used to meet me to try to persuade me I was wrong in opposing the Euro.              One of the arguments I used to put to  them was that a single currency needed [...]