Day: 24 August 2012

The statistics released yesterday by the Bank of England show that quantitative easing has done little more than cause the economy to bump along the bottom or stop things getting worse. Moreover it has boosted asset prices, helping the wealthiest 5% of the population disproportionately to the rest. Not only does the current use of QE fail […]

It was bound to happen that sooner or later the Sun would, under some self righteous cloak of press freedom, publish the pictures of Prince Harry naked. This blog does not usually venture into the area of privacy and press freedom, but it does tend to weigh into controversy, which is what this has now become. Whatever everybody […]