Why so much talk and so little trouser on riots?

Everybody seems to be wondering why the UK response to rioting has been so slow.  There are also plenty of people asking why Boris doesn’t do something. The answer is pretty simple; the civil disturbance is now so serious that the only reasonable response to it...
Plan B is scarcely a plan at all.

Plan B is scarcely a plan at all.

To read this entry, please ensure that: you appreciate literally hundreds of mixed metaphors you know who made your shoes you aren’t currently interested in giving me a job In 2009, during what was a worldwide recession (Gordon was right about that), the UK had...
Our Duty to the Falkland Islands

Our Duty to the Falkland Islands

The Leader of Argentina, Ms De Kirchner, has attacked the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron for his dismissal of Argentinian requests to negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. A brief check on the economic situation of Argentina...
Balls

Balls

The Labour Party’s Ed Balls has been arguing consistently since before the last election that the Conservative plan to cut the UK public sector deficit is wrong-headed and likely to lead to economic disaster. When he peddles his intellectually vacant argument...