Two lessons in politics and government from Ireland

Irlande, Nul Points First the mildly funny story.  It emerged this morning that since 2003, more than 18,000 people cases of serious road traffic offences have been brought to court in Ireland and convicted of.  Of those, it would appear that just over 700 of those...

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...