Increasingly presidential
The Conservatives have proposed that anyone who takes over as prime minister during a parliament should be required to call a general election within six months. (Read a report on […]
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Those prime ministerial debates
The general election prime ministerial debates are dominating political news reporting at the moment, and this blog has never been ready to leave any bandwagon unjumped. However, unlike all the
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Too many vaccines
It has become apparent that the British government ordered many more shots of swine flu vaccine last winter than turned out to be needed. (The Guardian reports the story here.)
Sharing the economic pain
There is an interesting piece in the Financial Times today reporting on the scale of the debts that have built up in post-Communist Europe. (Read it here.) Greece may be
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STOPP, or carry on?
I haven’t posted on the blog lately – the reason is that I have just become a father and have been taking some paternity leave. I can start to ease
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Greece should go to the IMF
The economic crisis in Europe is falling most severely in Greece at the moment. The Greek government has a ruinously high deficit this year, at 12.7 per cent of GDP,
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Who’s afraid of a hung parliament?
The opinion polls are close and getting closer. An election that the Conservatives ought to have had in the bag, given the unpopularity of the Labour government and the depth
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Where should non-doms pay tax?
Labour and the Liberal Democrats are in uproar today over the news that Tory vice-chairman and major donor Michael Ashcroft is a non-dom, that is to say he pays tax
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Can the UK afford a financial services industry?
It is surely a matter of national pride that a country with only 1 per cent of the world’s population who generate 4% of the world’s GDP can have such
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You can’t buck the market
Margaret Thatcher’s famous aphorism echoes down the decades, and is heard nowhere more clearly at present than in Greece. The Greek government is struggling to convince the bond markets that
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