Apparently, In the early 1980s a council tenant?s average income was 73% of the national average. Today two in three tenants living in ?social housing? are among the poorest 40%. These two numbers are NOT COMPARABLE. One is a measure of the average income, the other is a measure of the proportion of poor people. Idiots.

I thought that two of the key problems in a recession is rising unemployment, due to companies going bust. So how exactly does bribing companies to take new staff on who have been unemployed for longer than 3 months actually help?  If Cameron was serious about tax cuts, then he should offer help to companies [...]

Ever since the banks were bailed out, I was worried that the government could not resist micromanaging their way through this mess. The difference between the Libor - the rate that banks lend to each other - and the BOE base rate - the rate that the BOE lends at - cannot be clearer. Generally [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I sent a FOI request to Colchester Borough Council to try and find out some information about the £4m lost somewhere in Reykjavik. Below are the responses: 1. What financial advice was received by Colchester Borough Council on investments from 1st October 2007 until 10th October 2008? CBC use Sector Treasury Services to [...]

Yesterday evening, for the first time in my life, I went to a football ground. Not to watch or play football, but to listen to a speech by Dominic Grieve MP, the Shadow Home Secretary. And I was extremely impressed with him. Not only was his speech 1st class, the 30 minute chat I had [...]

It seems that Boredo Gordo’s underhand tactics worked. I wonder what the political fallout will be?

Why is the media so obsessed with Obama, when we have our very own election to worry about? Yes, the Glenrothes bi-election is today, which possibly will signal the end of the Brown premiership and bring about a general election, yet the Torygraph has a dozen “comment” articles about Obama yet only one (very short) [...]

Server keeps overheating. Grrrrr. Am in Switzerland so can do nothing about it. We can but hope it remains ok….

I worry about what the government has in mind when it says it wants compulsory sex and relationship education in schools for all children, as young as five. It has nothing to do with children learning about their bodies, or about reproduction, or contraception. These are all facts. I do not want to stop or [...]

I wish I had not come back. I learned today that our incompetent Labour government, not happy with 100 or more separate tax increases, of plunging our economy into recession, of presiding over a massive banking crisis, of pissing billions of our money down the drain, of all the lies, backtracking and blaming the Tories [...]