Day: 28 February 2015

Russia: Is She A Threat?

February 28, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It depends how you look at it. Sir John Sawers, ex-head of MI6 said some very wise things in his interview with BBC Radio 4, which makes it all the more inexcusable for the blighted foreign office to have got it so wrong. Among Sir John’s comments were his disappointment that the West and Russia had […]

Public Investment Without Borrowing

February 28, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Politicians do not like to talk about the fragile nature of the UK’s Economic Recovery. Yet it remains rooted in borrowing, asset inflation, housing costs which are out of control and a housing shortage which continues to grow. It is consumption based in a country which no longer makes things for shoppers to buy, so […]

Tuition Fees: Has Labour Tripped Up?

February 28, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This blog is mystified by the announcement that Labour is going to reduce tuition fees to students then pay for it by raising taxes on pensions. The two are not connected. Moreover money raised in taxes goes straight into Treasury coffers and can easily be grabbed for any number of alternatives. In principle students do […]