Hobos and welfare for America's Rich
My apologies to the people of New England. I mistakenly said in my Monday column that Representative Dean Heller comes from Vermont. He comes from Nevada, where 64pc of all home sales are from...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne targeted welfare to make up the numbers
Don't worry; this isn't going to hurt, or not much anyway. Listening to George Osborne deliver his Comprehensive Spending Review, you would be forgiven for thinking that he is giving away more than he...
View ArticleIs the spending review unfair on the poor?
So what does the Institute for Fiscal Studies' traditional, post match hatchet job have to tell us about the Chancellor's latest stab at putting the public finances to rights? Mr Osborne might have...
View ArticleAutumn Statement: Proof that a lack of growth leads to carnage
Ouch. If you wanted to know exactly how expensive weak growth is to the economy, the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has provided the answer. Crippling. Over the five years from 2011/2012 to 2015/2016,...
View ArticleIs Brussels trying to force the UK out of the EU?
Congratulations Nigel Farage. You’ve just gained a bunch of new supporters. The European Commission will today take the UK to the European Court of Justice – the body meant to police the EU treaties –...
View ArticleOsborne's spending cuts lay barely a scratch on the leviathan
Lights, camera…er. In terms of drama, today's spending review always was going to be a bit of a non event – largely leaked as it was, encompassing only the first year after the next general election...
View ArticleStop whingeing. The young have never had it so good
Lots of stuff in this morning's press about "intergenerational unfairness" on the back of the Tory leadership's pledge to protect pension spending but cut more from working age benefits – for example,...
View ArticleWhy a Scottish yes vote could prove overwhelmingly positive for the rest of...
As a unionist at heart, I’m hoping that much of this column will be rendered irrelevant in a couple of week’s time by a decisive no vote on Scottish independence. None the less, the chances of Scots...
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