BBC’s shameless presentation of IFS analysis of Labour and Tory manifestos exposed by IFS director’s own comments during interview A BBC Radio 4 interview on the Institute for Fiscal Studies […]
British Medical Association’s honorary vice-President, the eminent Dr Kailash Chand OBE, looks at an NHS teetering on the edge after decades of ideological attack Dr Kailash Chand is an honorary […]
As the SKWAWKBOX covered on Friday, Tory MPs made an attempt to pass a bill yesterday to allow NHS patients to be charged for their treatment – a move described […]
A couple of weeks ago, Labour voted with Tory rebels to pass a motion demanding a cut in Britain’s contribution to the EU budget, after David Cameron had indicated that […]
I sometimes wonder at the lack of imagination shown by many of our politicians on key issues, and the ensuing willingness to accept the status quo. Or perhaps it’s that […]
I have to confess, I’ve been dreading David Cameron’s speech to the 2012 Conservative party conference over the last few days. Not because I feared he’d be convincing or would […]
I’ve been a bit out of circulation since yesterday evening because of work travel, so maybe someone else has already done this. But maybe not. Most of the media reports […]
The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might think that a flood wouldn’t present […]
I wrote a couple of days ago about how taxation should properly be seen as a rent that is paid for the privilege of living in a well-structured, orderly society, […]
A commenter on my blog mentioned the ‘tax freedom day‘ announced regularly by the Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing policy think-tank that aims to extend free-market principles. The principle of […]