Why do we have a Law Commission? That is Parliament’s job
According to some reports the Law Commission is concerned at how zillions of new crimes have come into being at the behest of quangocrats and regulators.Who better...
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The nature of BBC bias
Mark Thompson, head honcho at the BBC, has admitted that the BBC has had a left wing bias. Progress. While refreshing to hear Mr T...
Read this entry »Is that it?
So. Three great election wins. More than a decade holding the levers of power. Now the memoirs published.And what was it Tony Blair was all...
Read this entry »Britain and France to share aircraft carriers
Seem like protectionist defence procurement isn’t quite giving us sovereign capability the way we were promised, eh? Had we ordered...
Read this entry »Mark Thompson on Sky
Sky should invest more in homegrown TV programmes, preaches BBC chief, Mark Thompson.I'm sure they would if we gave them over £2 billion of...
Read this entry »The one good thing about IPSA
For years, MPs have been creating quangos to take difficult decisions and let them off the hook. So much so, that entire swathes of public policy...
Read this entry »How to cut immigration?
Quit handing out so many visas would be a good start. It's five years since Parliamentary questions first revealed the extent to which student...
Read this entry »Lessons from the IFS
The Institute for Fiscal Studies - are they the experts who saw the credit crunch coming all along? Were they the ones issuing those clear,...
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Begging from America – the price of protectionist defence acquisition
According to the Telegraph, the Royal Navy may have to borrow US fighter jets. So much for protectionist defence procurement giving us sovereignty of supply.Instead,...
Read this entry »How’s that stimulus working?
With inflation set to rise, and the economic outlook gloomy, it could be time to ask how the fiscal stimulus has worked out.When the credit crunch first struck,...
Read this entry »Politicians should leave universities alone
Leftie ministers wanted quotas to boost diversity. Now those from the centre right want quotas to ensure bright kids from poor backgrounds get a certain...
Read this entry »Mail on Sunday reads this blog
Delighted to see that the Mail on Sunday reads my blog. Incidentally, when doing the newspaper review on Sky this morning with Polly Toynbee, I...
Read this entry »Australian election knife-edge
Polling shows that today’s Australian election is a neck-and-neck contest between Labor and the centre-right Liberal Party. Even if Tony...
Read this entry »The internet gives us unprecedented freedom
The Guardian’s Martin Kettle has an interesting article suggesting that the internet is having a profound cultural impact on the UK, leading to...
Read this entry »Leon Brittan to advise on trade
Leon Brittan has been appointed as a trade adviser to the government. Not that the UK government has any real say over UK trade policy. As an ex-Eurocrat,...
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