The news coming out of Belgium is appalling. A coordinated attack causing mass murder and injury where those in the firing line are both innocent and unaware. Everyone is at risk. Nobody is safe. Belgium is paying a high price for its success in capturing the Paris attackers and although it is the Headquarters of […]
As Osborne goes to the Commons to explain himself and paste together the wreck of his budget, it is important to remind ourselves of what this is all about. When the Coalition was formed in 2010 economists were divided over the best way forward. Some believed that at all costs the economy must continue to […]
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The collapse of the Government’s financial platform and the civil war now going on in the Tory party, rent asunder by almost everything, requires a new Chancellor to stop the rot. That is unlikely to happen because Cameron is fighting on two fronts. He has a public relations calamity over the budget and its aftermath and […]
Very occasionally there is a political earthquake when a minister resigns out of the blue and in so doing undermines the whole platform upon which the government has been built. Such an earthquake occurred yesterday. The budget, widely accepted as smoke and mirrors and rubbished by economists as full of wishful thinking and flawed assumptions, is […]
Osborne as Chancellor is a busted flush. He has come too often to the dispatch box with forecasts which he cannot achieve and catch phrases which are cheered on the day only to become silly later. Yesterday he revealed that the £27 billion or whatever the figure was which he pulled out of the hat in […]
If confidence and rhetoric were elements of GDP the UK would be flying high on Osborne’s Treasury regime. But at first sight today the chronic difficulty of over estimating growth and tax receipts and the under-estimate of costs of essential expenses remain problems unresolved. So, as predicted, his previous forecasts have again been proved wrong. Beyond […]
For the West with its catastrophic record of foreign policy failures, especially in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the Russian engagement in Syria and now the surprise partial withdrawal is an object lesson to watch. Russia has had bases in Syria more or less since the end of WWII and when it looked on the […]
The only cloud in the sky for the two front runners was over Trump with the loss to John Kasich, the no hope challenger who won his home state where he is governor. Clinton swept the board. Sanders battles on but it would take extraordinary events for him now to come through. Trump took Florida, until recently […]
News of riots and disturbances leading to the cancellation of a Trump rally is not good news for his campaign, yet it may as he says reflect the pent up anger on both sides at what is perceived to be failure of governance in Washington. Both the Republican and Democrat establishments are in trouble, although the […]