Day: 2 March 2015

Housing For Votes

March 2, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

All three of the main parties have announced house building programmes, none of which measures up. The Tories want to build too few with too many to buy, Labour will build more and will focus more on affordable rather than subsidised housing but how it will work is not yet clear, the Lib Dems want to […]

The Queen’s New Head

March 2, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

An attractive but traditional design is to be introduced for new coins showing a contemporary engraving of the Queen’s head. It is apparently the fifth edition to be issued during her long reign. During Queen Victoria’s even longer (so far) reign there were as I recall only two editions and both were still in circulation when […]