Yes, I think when you’re this out of touch with where the majority of the UK population is it puts you in a very difficult position as a politician. The anti-gay marriage group are reduced to religio… (View Post)

I’m not a huge Mieville fan but The City & the City is excellent. The Beeb did a good adaptation that really nailed the feel of the book too. (View Post)

Brown made one major policy failure that impacted 2008 directly I think: When he & Blair plotted their “big bang” reform of the control of monetary policy in the UK - the independence of the BoE … (View Post)

The other ludicrous thing about PFI is that the UK government can always borrow at a cheaper rate than the private sector. With PFI, the government was forcing the private sector to borrow at market … (View Post)

The great irony of course was that in reality government bond rates were (at the time) on a one-way track to 0% and the government could have borrowed far more & the markets would have happily gi… (View Post)