Senior public sector pay
The first ever cabinet secretary, Maurice Hankey, totally transformed the way that British government worked during the dark days of WW1. His work and skills made winning the war possible […]
Bruce
Tobacco marketing
The British government is acting to reduce tobacco consumption by getting rid of point of sale (POS) displays and brand packaging. Well done, more small steps towards making the consumption […]
Afghanistan, we should get out
Afghanistan is a total mess and we should bring out every British service person today. We are paying billions to support a highly corrupt government and to finance an economy […]
Very silly website
So some of the usual suspects from the left (who have damaged Britain so much in the past) have created this activist website that wants to return to the profligacy […]
Public sector pensions
Here we have something totally unsustainable, that is broken very badly indeed and desperately needs to be fixed and, as ever, the unions are in total denial. The new coalition […]
Economist gets it badly wrong
Economics is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying opposing things. Mark Blyth is a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute, professor of […]
The dead hand of the state
It has been proven time and time again that the state is not very good at owning things or running things and that the market does it much better. This […]
Brilliant video
Everyone in Britain should watch this video. It is a fantastic explanation of what we have done wrong to get in the mess we are in. And it explains the […]
Congratulations Rupert
It is nice to see that the coalition government is being sensible about letting Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp fully own BSkyB, he and his family already controlled it. In fact […]
The £22 lightbulb
So our ministry of defence admits that they pay £22 each for light bulbs that can be bought for just 65 pence each in the shops. There is no doubt […]
No Fly Zone in Libya
David Cameron has been floating the idea of a No Fly Zone(NFZ) in Libya to protect the rebels from their own government. So what is this trying to prevent?: Government […]
£2,336,177,000,000
Above you will see a very large number, over two thousand, thousand million and it is the amount of money that the UK government (in other words you and me) […]