The following article appears today on the BBC News Website. It is well worth reading. BBC News – The Ebola fumble in Dallas The Ebola fumble in Dallas When President Barack Obama first spoke about Ebola after an American aid worker was flown to Atlanta for treatment having contracted the disease in West Africa, he […]
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The governor of the Bank of England, speaking in Washington, has said some very profound things. This blog reproduces the text of the BBC News report BBC News – Mark Carney says bankers’ behaviour needs to change Bankers’ behaviour still needs to change following the financial crisis, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has warned. […]
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The party conference season is over. There have been two seismic political shocks in bye-elections. The general election is seven months away. Nobody is able to predict the outcome. All of this is an unusual configuration of confusion as the first fixed term parliament lurches forward to its close. It is a moment to assess […]
The news that this increasingly right wing Tory party, in flight from the UKIP attack, is now promising to unravel the Human Rights Act, has upset two of its most distinguished grandees and rightly so. Dominic Grieve and Ken Clarke have been busy on the media expressing anxiety and dismay at the plans put forward […]
After the conclusion of the two big conferences Labour remains ahead in the polls, but only just and its lead is within the margin of error. If the issue were decided on conference quality, the Tories would win, not least because of their steadiness under fire from scandal and defections. If the issue were decided […]
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Even the political enemies of the Tory party, and this blog is no friend (but nor is it to any of the political parties), the way the conference hit by scandal and defection has brushed it off and turned the media focus back to what matters for it is remarkable. It is also good for Cameron, […]