More so that it's important to have clearly comprehensible, open procedures which actually contribute to doing what they're supposed to. In this case, ministers - and pretty well everyone e… (View Post)

I think that's a very good analysis. She was as much, if not more a pragmatist and tactician than she was an ideologue with a plan. (The sale of assets to fund current spending is a good example… (View Post)

Well she is certainly qualified to have a view. Not so much to recommend herself as an improvement. (View Post)

That would, of course, invite retaliation, and trade barriers would rapidly mount, with the usual effects. The US can get away with that stuff, just about, but we're both too much dependant on t… (View Post)

I'm almost coming round to the view that we need a spell of the Greens in government to educate the electorate. I'm just not entirely sure that, on top of the economic shocks the country ha… (View Post)