I was on Radio 5 Live last evening discussing the Vickers report on banking. My argument was simple: ring fencing is not enough and for
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I should, in a sense, be pleased that consumer spending is crashing. I predicted it, so it proves me right. And I have strong Green
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The Guardian has reported: Japan has raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to the maximum seven, putting the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi
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Clegg seems to have got just about everything on NHS reofmr wrong. According to the Guardian: Clegg said GP practices would have to meet a
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Just a thought. If banks are to have their High Street operations ring fenced from their investment banking divisions can we treat the two as
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The NHS reforms promoted by Andrew Lansley are inherently flawed. One of the most blatant flaws is that GPs are not only given control of
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The people of Iceland rightly rejected the demand that they should be liable for the debts of their banks at the weekend, meaning that they
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The Isle of Scilly (for which I have considerable affection) have declared war on Jersey. Well, a war of wards at least: Tourism officials on
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All you need to know about the Banking Commission report can be summarised in this FT report: Shares in Britain’s biggest banks rose on Monday
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