So what the hell can Britain afford then?

So what the hell can Britain afford then?.

Tories miss Andy Coulson

The value of even a second class communications director is suddenly apparent.

Scottish polling: Good for Labour. Not bad for SNP.

The SNP government in Scotland has not been a resounding success or failure and have remained stable in the polls. Labour poll results are more interesting though.

Could Clegg stitch up his own party?

Lib Dems are biting their nails. Party activists, local councillors, and millions of committed voters are all very nervous. And here is why. Their MPs are talking to the Tories and they don’t like it.

Political climate change

America has been abuzz with talk of tea-party moments this week. Obama’s gloss has dulled and his party took a pasting on home turf. In England, maybe because we can’t stand to think of all that wasted tea, there are slower changes underway.   In the last few years I can think of just one tea-party [...]

An easy guide to reducing poverty

Should we sell off the NHS and give an equal share of its annual cost to every man woman and child in the country? Doing so would mean a hand out of £33 per week to everyone, effectively eliminating poverty all together.

Please aim low at Copenhagen

The Copenhagen deal is the first global climate change agreement in which the world’s major polluting countries will agree to cut emissions and so reduce global warming. And yet some people, as part of their moral arms race, are now claiming the climate would be better off without a deal.

An independent Scotland? RBS and Iceland suggest not

Alex Salmond today published Scotland’s independence White Paper. He offered his countrymen the choices of keeping the status quo, taking more powers to Edinburgh, taking a lot more powers to Edinburgh, or leaving the United Kingdom all together. Sadly for him that last option is pie in the sky.

‘Final solution’ to climate change agreed

World leaders posed for a joint photograph in Copenhagen today, and hailed their new climate change deal agreement as a great day for polar bears everywhere, and for about five billion people worldwide. Agreement came after years of deadlock about carbon trading, green taxes, and how on Earth to get the Yanks to sign up. [...]

Bank charges stand up in court

Today’s ruling is a blow for consumer power, but not a fatal one in the battle over bank charges.