Sod the 50% rate. Concentrate on the borrowing

This is not a soak-the-rich budget, and the portion of it which would actually tax the rich hard will raise just over a billion in revenue – that’s against a £650 bn borrowing spree. This is an attempt to sweeten the deal for the sort of people who trade...

Gordon Brown’s Jonah Complex

Gordon Brown is a klutz, a jinx, fool whose every touch turns the object touched to shit. Where Blair had a Midas-like ability to hold the faith of at least the mainstream, he has been succeeded by a man capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at every...

The BBC is smearing Cameron and Osborne

It’s absolutely obvious that the BBC is trying a smash and run on the Conservative Party today, and that the work of Alastair Campbell and the Dark Lord Peter Mandelson is again grabbing hold of the pro labour state broadcaster.  I’ll prove it. Nick...

Who Governs – May 2008 Edition

In the UK, David Cameron is leader of the Conservative party, and we haven’t got any firm policies to speak of, except the old truism ‘communism is bad, and you oughtn’t do any of it’. Gordon Brown is leader of the Labour Party and Prime...