MARKETS ARE BRUTAL and will abuse anyone perceived as weak. At the moment, bizarrely, it is the strongest player in the market who is allowing
(If you missed Part One before Friday’s mini-budget, go here first.) ONE OF THE BEST THINGS about the Chancellor’s speech is that it did most
ONLY TIME will tell whether the instinct of our new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to cut taxes in pursuit of economic growth will produce the 2.5
THE MEDIA has moved on from the Conservative leadership election and Royal funeral and has now started to worry about the falling pound – but
I DIDN’T want Liz Truss to win the Conservative Party leadership contest but I’m now happy to eat humble pie and admit I was wrong
WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses.
The immediate inclination of politicians and technocrats when something goes wrong is to reach for the controls to try and exert more power over events.
NEW EU TAXES are vital to cover the cost of its ‘invisible’ Coronavirus Recovery Fund debts – but at what cost to member states? Facts4EU.Org
I RECENTLY had a blog published by Politeia about the lack of transparency in the accounting for the debts of EU/Eurozone member states. The member states’ contingent liability
NICOLA STURGEON may have had an unfortunate fall while she and Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross visited the Bluevale Community Club in Glasgow recently but
FOR THE PAST two weeks, as we approached the COP26 Climate Summit and throughout its duration, the Government’s preaching about commitments to help lower the
AS HER MAJESTY weighed in to inject purpose and optimism into the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) on Climate Change, Greta Thunberg less eloquently