Cllr Ian Parsley’s humorous take on the Pre Budget that never was
bySee http://ianjamesparsley.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/lies-damned-lies-and-spending-plans/
Society
Is There Such a Thing as Society?
byThe infamous “no such thing as society” interview given by Prime Minister Margret Thatcher to Women’s Own magazine, October 31, 1987: I think we…
Demand for £50 notes ‘fuelled by lack of faith in banks’ – Telegraph
byVia Demand for £50 notes ‘fuelled by lack of faith in banks’ – Telegraph: Demand for £50 notes has risen sharply during the recession…
The Errors of Posen, New MPC Recruit
byNorma Cohen in the Financial Times of 26 October 2009 wrote: Britain’s economy cannot recover unless its damaged banking system is restructured, the newest…
Britain’s Business Community – Your Country Needs You!
byChris Neal explains how the reports of the Centre for Social Justice and Conservative Party policy are converging in a direction which tends towards…
Why Budget Deficits are Bad for the Economy and Why Sir Samuel Brittan is Wrong
byToby Baxendale exposes flaws in the economic thinking of the left, indicates the dangers of deficit spending and points to a better way to…
War in Afghanistan
byVia The Guardian At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage…
The Welfare State in Crisis
byThere are 2.7 million people claiming Incapacity Benefit in this nation. I often wonder if after the World War Two, did we have more…
Henry John “Harry” Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009)
byChris Neal commemorates Harry Patch, who understood the human cost of violent conflict, asking, ‘What must Patch have thought about the loss of life…