The Public Accounts select Committee has drawn attention to the peculiar custom of HMRC hiring accountants to help draft regulations, who then go back into their firms to advice clients how to get round them. There is a clear conflict in the style of poachers and gamekeepers. It serves to underline the idiotic pass to […]
The intentions of Alex Salmond, the UK’s sharpest political operator, in his leadership of his country’s bid for independence are becoming less clear than they initially appeared. Many thought the plan was to cut adrift and go it alone, clean and free. First the Monarchy was spared the axe, then the Bank of England and […]
The issue is the proposed mortgage guarantee the government will give to all home buyers, who cannot find from their own savings the required 20% deposit. The Treasury Select Committee under its able chairman, Andrew Tyrie, has issued a critical report about this ridiculous proposal. The financial regulators, the building societies and the banks are […]
This is the most extraordinary situation which the entire international community finds both perplexing and alarming. There is a tendency to dismiss the tension as bluff from a hermit kingdom full of brainwashed and starving people, run by a despotic family dynasty, supported by puffed up generals and an out of date military, which if […]
The unfortunate and unhappy teenager Paris Brown, who has been put through an emotional mangle by the media over her tweets of the past, has resigned from her extraordinary post as a youth police and crime commissioner in Kent. One can only hope that she quickly recovers her self confidence and self esteem after a […]
In the forest of British and world Politics a great oak has fallen. The death of Margaret Thatcher is an event of great significance, whatever political views you hold and whether you think her brand of politics, Thatcherism, good or bad. The measure of her greatness as a politician is that she has a political […]
To highlight the extraordinary situation of a huge family, led by able bodied work age adults, living entirely off benefits and no work, at public expense while their neighbours toil and pay taxes to fund the fiasco, is a point worth making. Whether it is quite as simple as that and whether senior government ministers, […]