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In terms of what the Coalition’s “austerity” meant on the ground, over a million local Government jobs went - not in education but across the range of other Services provided by councils which suffer… (View Post)

Equally serious mode on…. No one is asking Reform or Farage what they would be doing now were they in Government and the polls put them in a more likely position to be leading a minority Government t… (View Post)

The interesting (or astonishing) bit is what it tells us about democracy and governance. Thatcher (as you mention her) argued a position - she argued it at every opportunity - because she believed in… (View Post)

Late afternoon all :) Off to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich today hoping to become an exhibit. Old wooden commentary like mine belongs in a museum, I'm told, and the new Centrist wing look… (View Post)

Evening all :) Currently, almost a year's worth of gains on the DJIA has been wiped out in an extraordinary act of "self harm" (there are many other ways to describe what has happened of co… (View Post)