A tax on junk food will help offset those looming NHS cuts
Debt means cuts. There is no way around this obvious fact of life. If you have run up serious debt on jam yesterday, there will be no jam today nor any jam tomorrow, for many tomorrows to come. You will have to spend more of your income on debt and less (if any at all) on jam. Vast public debt such as ours means huge public-services cuts.Sunday, June 14, 2009 | Comments (1)
Sadistic Sonnex is the face of Labour’s greatest disgrace
When punishment comes - such is the arbitrary nature of things - it is often for the wrong offence. Gordon Brown and new Labour are being most terribly punished at the moment, but not for the crimes of omission and commission of which they are most guilty.Sunday, June 07, 2009 | Comments (2)
No privacy and no power – there’s no way I’d be an MP
On the day of her well-deserved downfall last week, the MP Julie Kirkbride published an article attempting to explain herself and her expenses. It reminded me of Cherie Blair’s unfortunate comment to the cameras, when tearfully apologising for the episode of the Bristol flats and the conman, saying she had too many mumsy balls in the air to get everything right.Sunday, May 31, 2009 | Comments (0)
One TV channel and three radio stations, that’s all the BBC needs
Few things in life are simple. That’s partly because humans are not just problem-solving but also problem-seeking creatures. We seem to be driven to make mountains out of molehills. However, there is one thing in our national life that is extremely simple, and that is what to do about the BBC.Sunday, May 24, 2009 | Comments (0)
When today’s left speaks it is right-wing bigotry we hear
Bigotry, like poverty, is always with us. It is not often in this country that you come across open, unselfconsciously brutal bigotry, but it is always there somewhere, lurking in the most respectable of places, and sometimes it drops its mask and bares its vicious teeth.Sunday, May 17, 2009 | Comments (0)
