Opinion is divided as to whether the MPC was right to leave interest rates at the present level. This Blog is of the persuasion that it has made a mistake. The arguments for holding rates at this historic low are well known and well rehearsed. The problem is that our inflation rate is back to the old […]
There is a plus and a minus today for and againt the government. Michael Gove has introduced the new English Baccalaureate. This brings this country in line with countries in the world which have much higher educational standards than our own, for whom the idea of a core of academic skills which will lift the […]
The President of the United States, in what may be remembered as the greatest speech of his Presidency thus far, spoke to and for all Americans. Cynics and opponents will find fault, but this President has demonstrated, again, that he ranks among the greatest and most poetic orators of his county’s political history. It an atmosphere charged […]