The following was commissioned for publication elsewhere today. It missed its intended audience of a couple of million or so, but what the heck? Here
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The Guardian has reported that: Retail sales in Britain unexpectedly fell last month as consumers started tightening their belts ahead of the government’s austerity measures,
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I note the FTSE is at a near high for the year this morning. The market loves cuts. They are idiots. You cannot make money
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I’m trying to be as politically correct as possible here, but it’s not going to work. The FT has reported: George Osborne pleased businesses by
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As Jonathan Freedland said in the Guardian this morning: A quick look at the figures confirms that, until the crash hit in September 2008, the
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George Osborne gave a nervous, cough strewn presentation of his spending cuts. And so he should have done. This was the delivery of the cuts
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George Osborne gave a nervous, cough strewn presentation of his spending cuts. And so he should have done. This was the delivery of the cuts
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We know 500,000 state employees are to lose their jobs over the next four years, at a minimum. We know that even the likes of
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I note Mervyn King has promised us a ‘S.O.B.E.R.’  decade of savings, orderly budgets and equitable rebalancing. He’s deluded. What is equitable about 500,000 public
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