Day: 10 March 2011

This has been a ticking bomb under the public finances for a very long time and Lord Hutton, a former Labour minister, is to be commended for the realism and frankness of his report. Civil Service unions are understandably angry and will do all they can to protect their members’ retirement expectations. However the truth […]

France has recognised the anti-Gaddafi forces and their administrative structure as ‘the legitimate government of Libya’. This is premature. There is no certainty that they will prevail, nor even that they have majority support in the wider context of the whole of Libya. Certainly they are in no sense ‘governing’ Libya. It may very well be […]