You may not have noticed but May is in Italy on a walking holiday, Boris has been in Australia and Fox was in America. Suddenly Philip Hammond was all over the media explaining how Brexit was going to be a gradual thing, at first we would not notice it, and then whatever deal was struck […]
In the last few days there has been much recognition and celebration of the fact that only fifty years ago it was illegal to be gay. The progress made by the LGBT community and the enlightened understanding which has wrapped everybody else in a full acceptance that people are born in ways which vary, but […]
Constantly we hear from government ministers that the UK has a strong economy, but yesterday Sir Vince Cable, famous for predicting the Crash, was worried. He rightly points out that very little new wealth is being created and the economy is now being sustained by record levels of consumer borrowing. An economy driven by borrowing […]
Growth appears to be slowing. Government borrowing is up. There are mixed signals coming from the government about almost everything. There appears to be a softening on Brexit. Meanwhile the EU’s trading position grows stronger with free trade deals with Canada and Japan and soon with Australia and new Zealand. So the market we are trying […]
Not Russia. Not China. Not IS. Not even North Korea. No, Washington itself has become America’s worst enemy. The country has elected a President whom some love and others hate. He won because he spoke to millions of Americans whom the political class had forgotten. He has some good ideas some bad ones. He is […]
After she lost her majority, this Blog proclaimed on several occasions that May was toast. By conventional rules of competent government she was and is. A string of mis-judgments since the election disaster and a continued zombie one liners to explain policy which is controversial, increases the feeling that she is, as described by Osborne, […]