There were dramatic scenes at London’s airports last week as the dreaded day arrived… Britain had read its newspapers and listened to its political leaders so all eyes were on the expected chaos at the country’s borders… … The UK…
George Osborne sticking to his Plan A No wonder George Osborne is feeling sick these days. All those confident predictions about his master plan for the British economy seem to be going down the pan. This morning’s news that Britain’s…
Nick Clegg, George Osborne, David Cameron I’ve been worried, as have many of you I’m sure, about the way our leaders here in Europe have been handling the economy. I don’t vote Conservative and never have but, even if I…
We don’t love politicians so much that we can’t enjoy it when their PR opportunities misfire – well I can’t anyway. If I find it hard to love any of our British parliamentarians these days then I hold the present…
I bet that Cornish pasty has a bitter taste Dave. If only you didn’t keep trying to be an ordinary bloke then we wouldn’t be laughing at your latest U-turn, well, maybe. If you are lucky enough not to live…
George Osborne For all those “grannies” in the United Kingdom who are worried about the cut in their pensions after the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne’s Budget, there is even more gloom if they fancy tottering off down…
The British Prime Minister David Cameron announced yesterday that the government’s attempts to cut debt were “proving harder than anyone envisaged.” Who does he mean when he says “anyone”? The last government? The much-reviled ex-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown? Many leading…
May 2010: George Osborne, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, was adamant that his policy was correct: cut the deficit straight away, begin the cuts immediately, cut government subsidies and shrink the public sector. Manufacturing and the rest of the private…
I wish I understood economics. When I was a schoolboy I wanted to do A level economic history but my school couldn’t make the timetable fit for anyone doing English, History and Economic History so I did music instead. An…
I was standing at a bus stop in pouring rain on Saturday afternoon at the spot seen in the photograph above but on a much gloomier day. Temporarily car-less, I timed my bus journey at a time when England has…