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If you think this year is bad just wait for 2010 . . .

THIS is a red letter day for the average West Midlands taxpayer. It is the beginning of the first week in which he starts working for himself and his family.Read

Our PM’s rapidly losing touch with reality

A man dies and goes to Heaven. On a giant wall behind St Peter he sees millions and millions of clocks, all showing different times of day.Read

Time to clamp down on parking menace

WE are spied on by CCTV cameras everywhere we go.Read

Devil’s in the detail with these flawed schemes

WITH 75,000 families expected to have their homes repossessed this year, you would think that the Government’s £285 million mortgage rescue scheme could not fail.Read

European Parliament gravy train is an even worse scandal

THROWING more cash at MPs won’t make them behave any better.Read

Sitting pretty as our troops are dying

IT is marketed as the most comfortable office chair in the world so, as you’d expect, it isn’t cheap.Read

Give rotten Parliamentary orchard a prune

THEY are blaming the system when its guiding rule couldn’t be clearer.Read

Forget swine flu, look at the hospitals

REMEMBER the Millennium Bug? We were warned that aircraft would fall from the sky when computers crashed at midnight on December 31, 1999. Nothing happened.Read

Tax hike is the last straw for Sir Michael

“WE have three and a half million layabouts on benefits and I am 76 and getting up at 6am to go to work and keep them.”Read

Electric car stunt lacks real power

YOU probably spotted those posed snaps of Lord Mandelson and wooden-faced Geoff Hoon spinning around a track in an electric car that doesn’t exist.Read

IT’s just a complete Govt disaster

GOVERNMENT is so institutionally incompetent that the less it does, the better.Read

I’m not mad about MPs’ priorities

“BEFORE we ask anyone else to give, we in this Government must examine our own costs. Those of us in politics have been entrusted with great privilege by the people. We must lead by example.”Read

Time to plug this expenses loophole

THE abuse of a dodgy expenses system by MPs has for many years been a boil ripe for lancing.Read

Saving the world? No, wasting £50m

IT looks like being one of the most expensive publicity stunts in history.Read

It’s a promised land for the workshy

IN AUSTRALIA, immigration policy is decided on the basis of what best helps the country.Read

You’re watched – every step you take!

EVERY move you make. Every step you take. I’ll be watching you.Read

One of many very public scandals

TWO placards have appeared outside the Edinburgh home of the worst banker in the world.Read

PM has to unite party before election

DO YOU think Gordon will venture a peak at the dramatisation of the Iron Lady’s final days of power?Read

Ms Smith could be taught a lesson

WHEN William Gladstone was Prime Minister he even bought all his own postage stamps.Read

Birth-rate nonsense needs killing off

BARELY a day goes by before another unelected quack is hectoring us to change our lifestyle.Read