Petrol prices
The BBC is currently obsessing about petrol prices, they obviously see it as a way of having a go at George Osborne. So let’s look at what is behind this. […]
Bruce on Politics
A great budget
The best budget, by a huge margin, for something like 14 years, and maybe much longer. A tour de force. With no manoeuvre room due to the immense economic hole […]
The NHS as an example of Labour mismanagement
The NHS consists of medical staff such as doctors, nurses, dentists, physiotherapists etc who look after their patients. It also requires managers who allocate resources. Being as this is a […]
Were Blair and Brown socialists?
Some people try and make out that New Labour was not socialist, mainly because they didn’t nationalise everything in sight. But the reality is that this is just about the […]
Don’t forget Bahrain, Yemen and Syria
In the West the media focus is on Libya because our forces are involved so that is where all the press assets are engaged. Meanwhile there are ongoing civil uprisings […]
Libya update
Thus far, militarily, this has been a perfect campaign. The alliance have acted in a measured and restrained manner to implement the UN resolution to the letter, they are implementing […]
Has there been a power shift in Russia?
Yesterday Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in a typical piece of silly, misguided, macho posturing, said that the UN intervention in Libya was analogous to a “mediaeval call for crusades”. Just how […]
Shia or Sunni, who should the West back?
Islam is divided into two main denominations, Shia and Sunni, these are fundamentally doctrinally irreconcilable and have a very long history of not liking each other very much. Sunni are […]
The upcoming budget
Thus far George Osborne has done an exemplary job, just about faultless. He has slowed down the vicious downwards spiral into oblivion which Labour had us engaged on to the […]
The West and Libya
Last night’s UN resolution is a major political triumph for David Cameron, it is he that first floated the no fly zone idea, he has stuck to his guns through […]
Just how inefficient are public employees?
We all know that public employees do not have to compete in a market for their services and that the expected productivity standards are very low whilst wages are higher […]
We need nuclear power
Currently nuclear power is in the news because of an incident in a Japanese nuclear power station that was subject to earthquake forces that were many times what it was […]