This Blog backs the Tory government one hundred per cent in its determination to make hospital consultants, who are employed by the State and paid with taxpayer’s money, work to a pattern that suits the ailing, the sick and the dying, even if it does not suit them. It implores Jeremy Hunt to stand firm […]
This is the moment when history will record the demise began of the Eurozone and the euro in their original form, set up on an unworkable financial model without any coherent system of governance. It will also record that this is the moment when Germany once again over reached itself and destroyed its leadership authority […]
Both the Euro and the eurozone have been terribly damaged by the all night row which has produced for Greece terms which are identical to the kind of sovereignty loss arising out of military defeat. It retains control of its streets but not of its economy. Moreover what is demanded is very bad for Greece and […]
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The word spectacle is carefully chosen, since this is what the current drama of which Greece is the symptom, not the cause, has become. It no longer bears any relationship to coherent democratic leadership or process of governance in a workable political and currency union. The cancellation at a moment’s notice of a summit of all EU […]
Churchill’s words at once spring to mind after the Foreign Office advice to British tourists to flee Tunisia ASAP. There is no doubt that IS, now building up its presence in the collapsed state of Libya, with whom Tunisia shares a porous border, has won a stunning victory. One gunman has all but crippled the Tunisian […]
Yesterday this Blog referred to Osborne’s successful seizure of the centre ground which Labour had thought it occupied, but by using policies of the left (ie higher taxes on the better off and lower taxes on the less well off, the ending of the practice of business owners paying themselves in dividends rather than higher […]
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This blog will leave picking over the details of the measures announced by George Osborne to the vast industry of commentators, economists and analysts dedicated to do just that, and concentrate on the political change which it heralds. In the post WWII period the centre ground of politics shifted to the left. Labour was the […]
Yesterday was full of poignant recollections from survivors and rescuers of the terrible carnage in London ten years ago. The ceremonies were dignified and imposing, providing a fitting backdrop to the nation’s tribute. Among the congregations and participants there were those who came alone in memory of a loved one whose life ended that day. Their […]