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Home Office’s murderous stupidity Feb 02 2009

IT WAS Gordon Brown who famously promised to deliver “British jobs for British workers”.Read

Not seeing the funny side of Europe Jan 26 2009

“I WANTED to find out if Europe could laugh at itself,” explained David Cerny.Read

Ghost bus? – You just couldn’t dream it up! Jan 19 2009

THERE is no level to which the government will not stoop in order to maintain the twin fictions that it is both competent and improving our lot.Read

Democracy back in dark ages Jan 12 2009

I was only a small child when Mam told me about the tiny elf who lived in our fridge.Read

Statistics make you think tax rates Jan 05 2009

LET’S do some simple arithmetic.Read

Government fails the numbers game Dec 29 2008

BIRTHDAYS are good for you. Statistics prove that people who have the most live the longest.Read

Your money is wasted thick and fast Dec 22 2008

MONEY talks. It says goodbye.Read

Gordon has his eye on bloggers Dec 08 2008

HOW exquisitely apt that this most mean-spirited and joyless of governments should propose to call time on the happy hour.Read

Future pain is price for small gain Dec 01 2008

HAROLD Wilson debased our currency and infamously promised the pound in our pocket would not be devalued.Read

Repositioning the goalposts Oct 27 2008

FACTS are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.Read

On Her Majesty’s snooping service Oct 20 2008

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free? Whatever happened to it?Read

Throwing cash at a dodgy deal Oct 13 2008

ABOUT ten years ago Birmingham’s then Labour controlled council was dishing out hundreds of thousands of ratepayer pounds to ethnic minority organisations.Read

Football’s strange blind spot Oct 06 2008

A DOCTOR buries his mistakes. An architect can only tell his client to plant trees. And a top referee?Read

It’s going to be a grim future for us taxpayers Sep 29 2008

YOU didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee that lending 125 per cent mortgage advances to people with no jobs, no income and no prospect of repaying the money was an accident waiting to happen.Read

The rime of the ancient premier Sep 22 2008

IT all started as a bit of blogger’s whimsy.Read

A balanced debate on immigration - at last Sep 15 2008

IT has taken well over a decade to be able to question the sustainability of uncontrolled immigration without being labelled a racist.Read

A right load of old Titians Sep 08 2008

THE only true financial worth that can be placed on an object is what people are prepared to pay for it.Read

Why we had no golden goals Sep 01 2008

GOOD ideas are so fragile, so easy to kill.Read

Let’s stop investing in losers Aug 25 2008

MONEY can’t buy you love, chirruped The Beatles.Read

Our prisons policy is criminal Aug 11 2008

POLITICIANS greet every new crisis as if it were an unstoppable force of nature, beyond their control.Read

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