It is a bit of a running joke between ‘Yellow Bastard‘ Andrew Emmerson and I that we agree on everything. Many are the times when I have reached to blog only to find that he’s set out my opinion on an issue in a far better way that I could have. There are exceptions to …
2011 is already shaping up to be a hugely important political year. We’ve had the Arab Spring and in the last couple of months alone, landscape shifting national crises in phone hacking and the riots. Coalition government is still a whole new kettle of fish that could boil over at any moment. No one’s quite …
With the London riots many have started to wonder whether or not Boris Johnson’s bubble has burst. According to the ‘The Guardian’ Boris Johnson has been criticised by ‘Senior Tories’ for his delayed return from his summer holidays and fear the damage done to his electoral chances by having his very own ‘Hurricane Katrina’. Looking …
The reasons behind the riots may lie in successive generations of multiple deprivation and cyclic poverty. The justifications do not. Events such as the ongoing riots across London, Manchester and the West Midlands, always make us consider the fragility of society; how seemingly unshakable bastions of civilisation can be quickly bludgeoned into writhing cess-pits of …
The country has been reeling after three days of violent and sustained riots in many parts of London, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Nottingham and Bristol. Originally a peaceful protest seeking the truth behind the shooting of 29 year old Mark Duggan by CO19 on August 4, it soon spiralled out of control. Shortly after the march …
The recent downgrade of the USA’s credit rating has done more than hacked away at the tired Obama administration; it has revealed some nasty skeletons lurking in recent financial history… Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of the US credit rating from its coveted AAA to AA+ has drawn criticism and scorn from across the political …
How long has the housing crisis gone on for now, for I can’t remember. That may lie to the fact that this nation was most likely in one before I was born, with the right-to-buy scheme established by Thatcher having run for fourteen years already. It all started the idea that everyone should be a homeowner, the …
The above quote is taken from a recent interview given by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who thus described the idea that tax cuts which could be used to stimulate economic activity could be implemented without a significant cost. He was responding to an interview given by the Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, in which he suggested …
Ed Miliband may have found a way to shake off the label “Red Ed”. Unfortunately for him it could simply be replaced by the even more damaging nickname “Robot Ed”. It’s hard to believe that just last September Miliband’s acceptance speech as leader of the Labour party was greeted by a chorus of relief. The …
Like it or not, love him or loathe him, David Cameron has proved himself to be a competent and capable leader in his first year in Number 10. He has shown himself to be easily the most adaptable Prime Minister of the 21st century and perhaps the most versatile and formidable party leader too. He …
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