Budget deficit for 2020/21 is £303bn - 14.5% of GDP. Just six weeks ago at the Budget it was forecast to be £355bn - 17% of GDP. How was the forecast so far out given it was only made six weeks ago? … (View Post)

Fancy clothes, fancy titles, fancy medals. Time to ditch the lot of it. Tony Benn was absolutely right - the whole point of all this nonsense is to convey the message to the public that these people … (View Post)

Boris quietly taking steps to get to grips with the supposedly impartial state broadcaster: "Ministers veto reappointment of two women to Channel 4 board" "Decision not to renew Uzma H… (View Post)

Horrendous TV viewing figures last night: BBC1 19:30 Prince Philip: 1.92m (12%) 21:00: Prince Philip: 2.1m (12%) ITV 17:00 Prince Philip: 1.8m (16%) 19:00 Prince Philip 1.5m (10%) Despite what the es… (View Post)

Today will be a great day for Netflix and Amazon viewing and in turn sign-ups. That's no disrespect to Philip or the BBC's continuous Philip programming - many people will watch a bit of it but I dou… (View Post)