Rachel Reeves suffers with the nickname ‘Rachel from Accounts’. Only it looks like her own accounting has not been that good, and nor is her
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Wasting government money
The opening paragraphs of my column in The National yesterday said: EVERY time an idiot appears on the world stage, my experience tells me that
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Are people appointed to government posts to be private sector stooges?
The FT has reported today that: The UK government should consider the use of private capital to fix the NHS’s crumbling buildings and infrastructure, the
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Where does an extra £80 billion for defence come from?
Trump says we need to spend five per cent of our GDP on defence. That would increase the spend from £60 billion to £140 billion.
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Trump, NATO, and his plans for Canada and Greenland
The news media was making much last night of the fact that Trump was suggesting that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty – which says
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The Treasury should stop playing silly games
HM Treasury and the Bank of England issued a Memorandum of Understanding between them yesterday. This relates to the supposed independent funding of the Bank
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Someone, somewhere, has it in for Rachel Reeves
I gather today is Rachel Reeves’ birthday. I am sure it is a total coincidence that this appeared on the BBC website today: There are
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Oh shit
As the FT has noted this morning: At least half of Thames Water’s sewage plants lack the pipes and tanks to process enough waste water,
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The world is becoming a very threatening place
Trump has made clear where his sympathies lie. His first two international visitors to the White House have been Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Narendra
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