Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
The political theatre continues in full swing. Keen audiences, mostly the Westminster village, find it thrilling. Meanwhile there is a sense of drift in a county without either a functioning government or opposition. Perhaps Chilcot will liven things up on Wednesday. It may not be a good day for Blair. Meanwhile Farage, having achieved his […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
Maybe. In today’s political hothouse anything can happen. But the truth is the plotters appear to have miscalculated. They do not have a candidate who stands a chance in a leadership election against Corbyn and he is not going. Last week sixty thousand people rushed to join the party and the whisper is most if not […]
QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with recent market turmoil. Dynamic Quantitative Easing (also called Peoples Quantitative Easing) remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports and enable sustained growth […]
There are two kind of crisis which countries must guard against. The first is a political crisis. The second is an economic crisis. But sometimes an economic crisis extends to become a political crisis and vice versa. We are now engulfed in a political crisis. In 2008 we had an economic crisis which was sudden […]
As I kept the two minute silence at 07.28 this morning to commemorate the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, with an eye on the television screen showing the scene at the battlefield memorial at Thiepval to honour the dead with no known grave, one of those dead gazed down at me from his portrait […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
If we have learned one thing since May 2015, it is that the Tory party post Thatcher cannot govern on its own. Having led a perfectly respectable and rather effective coalition government for five years, Cameron has managed to blunder out of Europe, threaten the Union, create economic uncertainty which will fester and grow and gone back […]
The Parliamentary Labour Party cannot easily be forgiven for provoking a leadership crisis at a moment when the country is convulsed by political, social, economic and international forces beyond its previous experience and traditions. The PLP has done so and thus put itself in conflict with the majority of the members of the Labour party in the […]