

Rejoice, the Pound Sterling is falling – part two
(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
(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
HER LATE MAJESTY the Queen, even in death, astonishes us. While I suspect many predicted large crowds, in an age of alleged rationality, globalism and
AFTER A LIFE dedicated to service in an exacting role which she carried out to a consistently high standard for the immense span of seventy
IT IS NOT ENOUGH for actors to look good, they need to sound good, as evidenced by the film careers of the beautiful but very
WITH A GRANDIOSITY that is very individual and characterises the man, Alex Salmond proclaimed in October 2012 that the arrangement for a referendum he had
IT LOOKS as if the SNP is panicking. Ms Sturgeon had her plan worked out: bludgeon Boris Johnson into giving her a Section 30 Order,
IF ONE were to read what the Scottish National Party Westminster leader wrote in for The Times back in February of this year, one might
POLICY CAPTURE is where decisions over policies are repeatedly directed away from the public interest towards a specific interest. The consequences of policy capture can
IN APRIL 2022, the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Start the Week’ had an edition on ‘The age of the strongman leader’, the title of a
POLITICS has always suffered from systems of patronage, where after winning elections a political party hands out jobs and rewards to supporters. It is well