No, it was tourism gone wrong. Still, having been paid a fortune to generate drivel for the Mail, I suppose that Boris Johnson is at least keeping his end of the bargain. (View Post)

And there's nothing they can do to get rid of her, of course, given that there's no minimum service obligation placed upon MPs. AIUI a sufficiently shameless chancer could, in theory, get themselves … (View Post)

We don't live in the settlement created by Jim Callaghan though, do we? We live in the settlement created by Margaret Thatcher. The 1970s were a mess but the leaders of the 1970s aren't responsible f… (View Post)

One thing that an incoming Labour Government could do without having to commit to spending more money is to place severe regulatory restrictions on the ability of foreign rentiers to operate in the U… (View Post)

Certainly not happy for a lot of people, but then again it's a major opportunity for others. As I pointed out recently, when you have an economy that's stagnant - and the UK has been in more-or-less … (View Post)