We face a Labour meltdown after the election
Friday, April 12th, 2024I seriously wonder how long Labour has got before it has no choice but to wake up and smell the coffee. It would be incredibly
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Labour is still talking about the government's maxed out credit card
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024I just posted this on Twitter: He was talking to Sussana Reid (who is an excellent interviewer) on Good Morning Britain. With incompetence on this
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Is it any surprise that people are depressed about the state of this country when those tasked with its management are deliberately trying to undermine it?
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024I have to admit that I appear to be using the word ‘depressing’ quite often on this blog of late. That might, however, reflect my
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Of course people are angry: we have totally useless politicians whose sole aim is to destroy government services. Why wouldn’t people be angry?
Monday, February 26th, 2024There is a very strong feeling of ‘do we have to go through all that again?’ At the start of this week. Last week brought
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Has Starmer done his best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Thursday, February 15th, 2024Labour’s continuing inability to manage candidate selection for forthcoming elections, despite Keir Starmer’s seemingly fetishistic demand for control of this process, gives rise to an
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Will we follow China and suffer deflation - which is very much worse than inflation?
Thursday, February 8th, 2024China is suffering deflation, as has been reported this morning: In Western economies, like the UK, we have an obsession with inflation because deflation is
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Don’t you just love being patronised by smug, self-interested, central bankers?
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024I have already mentioned patronising politicians this morning, so let me not miss out on mentioning patronising central bankers as well. As the FT reports
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The UK economy is just a tale of one failed decision after another
Monday, January 22nd, 2024If you ever watched Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’, you will know that according to one of the characters, ‘history is just one fucking thing
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What we’re missing is politicians who believe change for the better is possible
Sunday, January 21st, 2024I admit that one of the difficulties of blogging regularly is working out what is worth talking about, and what just keeps the flow going.
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