The scenes on BBC’s Panorama programme last night beggar belief. The government is in confusion and the public are outraged. The Care Quality Commission clearly is not doing its job. According to an anonymous insider it no longer even tries. It just ticks boxes as it monitors rather than inspects. This useless body is about […]
This senior Lib Dem Cabinet Minister is beginning to look fragile. It is hard to tell if the complaints that are coming in to various authorities about him are genuinely expressed anxieties or part of a vendetta by some injured party. Huhne himself is confident of his innocence, yet inquiries continue. This all has to […]
In the UK these are flat-lining, though in London they are growing again, but this is due to the concentration of financial and service jobs, many with international dimensions, in the capital. In the US they are falling again and the authorities have confirmed there is now a homeprice double dip. Yet American consumer spending […]
It is easy to feel self righteous when a notorious war criminal is brought to book. It is even easier to feel that smugness which comes from the knowledge that we, as individuals, would never do such things, nor would our country. Sadly that is not wholly true. It is odd when victorious military commanders […]
There do seem to be some hopeful signs of rebel progress and battle fatigue of the Gaddafi regime. The Colonel remains in power nevertheless and gave the South African President short shrift in his latest peace effort. By boxing themselves in with declarations that Gaddafi must go, the international community whether in the guise of […]