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...
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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,...
Read this entry »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...
Read this entry »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...
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...
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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,...
Read this entry »AV referendum – it doesn’t have to be this way
Perhaps like me, you sense there’s something not right with our political system. Yet you can't quite see how AV is the solution. ...
Read this entry »How to stop the cowboy clampers?
Rogue car clampers are a real menace. Hardly a week goes by without a constituent complaining that they’ve been forced to pay £ hundreds...
Read this entry »Government appoints MP adviser – shock
In a surprise new move, ministers are expected to announce that a backbench MP will be made a government adviser. The new “policy czar”...
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