Day: 23 August 2012

The shock deficit requiring unexpected government borrowing of £ two thirds of a billion for July, has set economists off on an urgent media round to expound their theories. As usual these are conflicting, though a degree of unanimity is beginning to emerge across the piece: the present growth element, such as it exists, is […]

It is difficult to imagine a more inept move by the FCO, than threatening to enter the embassy of a foreign country and seize an asylum seeker who had sought refuge within. Not only would it breech international law but it would put at risk every embassy and diplomatic mission of the UK  across the world. The […]