Labour 
Time for Party Conference radicalism and a more rational opposition(0)
An odd thing happened to the Conservative Party conference this year – it changed. I have been to many conferences, although to be honest it is only in the past five or so years that I have endured the entirety of the event. What was odd was the atmosphere of virtual disdain for the process [...]
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US election thoughts
Image via Wikipedia I stayed up till 3.00am GMT to watch the results come in and have now had a time to think about what the significance of the Obama victory is. Here are the six thoughts I take from this. Race was only part of the story. Freshness and change is a much more [...]
To Keynes or not to Keynes
Image via Wikipedia So, our esteemed Prime Minister and is devilishly eye-browed side kick the Chancellor have decided that they want to be Keynesians as spend more money when the country is in recession. That is all very well, except they appear to be wanting to pick the bits of Keynes they like and leave [...]
The end of boom and bust
Today marks the day that the FTSE 100 index fell to the same position it was in 1997when Labour came to power. So what became of Brown’s ludicrous claim to have ended boom and bust because if the last ten years were not a boom then this is certainly a bust!