Once again the question of NHS funding has been raised. The ring fence is shown to be diluted by the fact that the increasing numbers being treated offsets the maintenance of expenditure limits, so that the NHS is actually suffering from a year by year decrease, or will do unless something is done. This brings […]
George Osborne said yesterday that house prices could go on rising for ten years. If the rise is greater than inflation, the economic outcome will be no better than a series of booms and busts, with such side-effects as to cripple the global competiveness of the economy. For example, if average house prices rose at […]
A spat has broken out in Westminster because the current chair of Ofsted is not having her contract renewed. She and many others allege this is because she is a Labour supporter and she is to be replaced by someone who is better disposed towards Tory ideals. So? This is the kind of argument that […]
The Ukraine is caught up in a political crisis arising out of its history as a country with a turbulent past and disagreement about its aspirations for the future. Its population is split between a majority in the east, mainly of Russian ethnicity who lean towards Moscow both culturally and economically, and a majority in the […]