There’s one area of public policy on which the major parties used to agree, but to which their commitment has lately become more ambiguous. Just as well, because it’s completely ridiculous, being based on economic illiteracy at best and shameful deception at worst. Once, Twice … Three Times A Liability This policy is known as the […]
I saw a letter to a newspaper recently that described the UK Government’s pension arrangement as a Ponzi scheme. It’s an observation that surfaces every so often.[1] The claim isn’t daft at all, but it’s also not quite the whole picture. As a response to this, I’m publishing a short series of articles on pension provision in […]
I put off writing this article until I felt sure that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 US Presidential Election. That didn’t quite work out as I had been expecting … I would prefer not to see another President Clinton. Don’t get me wrong: I will have no problem with President Hillary, even if largely […]
In a world where the Middle East is engulfed by conflict, where democracy in the UK feels like it’s falling apart and where a lunatic is within a whisker of being the most powerful man on the planet, it’s hard to care much about the current stushie between FIFA and the football authorities of England […]
Following the racist comments made earlier this month by Donald Trump about a US judge of Mexican heritage, New Republic’s Jeet Heer tweeted this: As you can see from his tweet, Heer is both a thoughtful commentator and an entertaining one. What the wit couldn’t obscure, though, is that the notion that Trump might in fact be for real […]