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The art of cutting back

Running a national economy is no simple matter – I couldn’t do it. The 2010-2015 Coalition and new Tory governments have made great mileage out of ‘getting our finances in order’ (specifically trying to balance the books by a combination of reducing spending and encouraging economic growth) [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Churchill: the day Britain said no

Last night I watched a documentary on the General Election of 1945 which Labour won by a landslide. Over the years I have studied this election in some detail. The normal assembly of anti-Churchill academics, Professors Charmley and Overy gathered as well as a bleached blonde Geordie Trot activist [...]

May 26, 2015 // 2 Comments

Stating the obvious

Pardon me for being thick, but – ever since Prime Minister David Cameron hatched his strategic plan of renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU and then putting the result to the electorate in a referendum – I’ve considered the wheeze ridiculous, borderline crackers. Never mind Mr [...]

May 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Working out what happened

Life constantly goes forward and thus the General Election result announced on 8th May is fast receding into the past. For the average punter/voter, trying to follow the antics of the ‘losing’ parties is a complicated task involving (as it inevitably does) a delicate tippy-toeing between the [...]

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Election betting meltdown

It was not just Labour in Scotland nor the Lib-Dems that suffered a meltdown, the betting analysts got it spectacularly wrong too. I revisited my Racing Post Election Special. It’s easier to refer to what Matthew Engel called correctly – Labour to hold Edinburgh South, Conservative [...]

May 9, 2015 // 1 Comment

Out-takes and impressions

Still suffering from my debilitating bout of man-flu, I spent much of yesterday unable to muster much interest in life as it is lived by others, either abed or in my favourite television-watching armchair. This unpromising set-up actually enabled me to form some insights or opinions upon the [...]

May 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rummaging through the embers

It is the morning after the night before and the media pundits are now running amok on all broadcasting channels. One of their main quests is to try to work out how and why the boffin from Strathclyde University who oversaw the GfK, NOP and Ipsos MORI ‘exit poll’ prediction on behalf [...]

May 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

RUST IN-DEPTH COVERAGE: THE ELECTION RESULT

By tradition I catch one thumping cold (or is it bout of ‘flu?) somewhere between October and April. This manifests itself in a gradual shut-down of all bodily organs, a streaming nose, watering eyes, regular sessions of uncontrollable Whooping Cough-wheezing and ‘serious’ sneezing – by [...]

May 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Question Time verdict

  At some point around the early evening BBC1 6 O’ Clock News yesterday, the viewing public was presented with a between-programmes trailer about Car Share, the new Peter Kaye sit-com, whose opening episode I had earlier chosen to watch on ‘play-back’ (shortly after breakfast) having [...]

May 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

More heat than light

Yesterday morning – in the course of reading the newspapers, pleased that, due largely to the combined efforts of my other half’s superbly-professional lawyers and accountants, our names had not appeared in The Sunday Time Rich List for the ninth year running – I watched the second half [...]

April 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

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