Petrol prices
The BBC is currently obsessing about petrol prices, they obviously see it as a way of having a go at George Osborne. So let’s look at what is behind this. […]
George Osborne
A great budget
The best budget, by a huge margin, for something like 14 years, and maybe much longer. A tour de force. With no manoeuvre room due to the immense economic hole […]
The upcoming budget
Thus far George Osborne has done an exemplary job, just about faultless. He has slowed down the vicious downwards spiral into oblivion which Labour had us engaged on to the […]
Just how inefficient are public employees?
We all know that public employees do not have to compete in a market for their services and that the expected productivity standards are very low whilst wages are higher […]
Afghanistan, we should get out
Afghanistan is a total mess and we should bring out every British service person today. We are paying billions to support a highly corrupt government and to finance an economy […]
Very silly website
So some of the usual suspects from the left (who have damaged Britain so much in the past) have created this activist website that wants to return to the profligacy […]
Economist gets it badly wrong
Economics is the only field in which two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying opposing things. Mark Blyth is a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute, professor of […]
Brilliant video
Everyone in Britain should watch this video. It is a fantastic explanation of what we have done wrong to get in the mess we are in. And it explains the […]
£2,336,177,000,000
Above you will see a very large number, over two thousand, thousand million and it is the amount of money that the UK government (in other words you and me) […]
Why socialism is evil #5, they think they know better than the market
Markets are wonderful things, we are all surrounded by many thousands of them, whether we are buying car insurance or a bag of sugar. They give the buyer the greatest […]
Why socialism is evil #4, financial ineptitude
It is the defining feature of every Labour government that they leave office having destroyed the finances of the country. As Margaret Thatcher famously said: “Socialist governments traditionally do make […]
Osborne and Cameron need to make more spending cuts
The out of control profligate spending of the Blair and Brown years has got UK plc into a terrible position, we are in debt over our ears to an almost […]