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And Gordon Brown replied

But that’s just the problem isn’t it?

First we had Alistair Campbell pouring bile on Gordon Brown and now the once prime minister Tony Blair is also heavily engaged in putting the boot in.

Keeping people in poverty

Are the continual ‘anti-poverty’ policies pursued by governments of all colours actually delivering the opposite result?

This seems to be the question that Janet Daley asks in an excellent article

Squatting on the rise

If ever there was an argument for the introduction of a proper Land Value Tax (LVT) it is this.

The Independent reports that according to the Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) the number of squatters has increased from 9,500 in 1995, to 15,000 in 2003 and now up to 22,000.

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Sex for money is legal – for some

A lot of the time I trawl the net looking for stories that on the face of it are not connected but after some analysis you realise they are.

Now, before I go any further I must warn you that clicking on some of the links

Pakistan – the pitiful international response

At a town hall event sponsored by MSN, the Deputy Prome Minister Nick Clegg launched an attack on the ‘pitiful’ international response to the Pakistan flood disaster now in its third week.

One in eight workers in the UK is foreign born

Britain was boosted by news that we had experienced the largest gain in jobs for 21 years over the last three months.

But over three quarters of those jobs were filled with foreign born workers

Blame it on public sector cuts

Public sector cuts and redundancies are in danger of causing the second dreaded dip in this ongoing economic saga.

According to a Guardian report the British Retail Consortium say that expectations of public sector redundancies have damaged the property and retail markets. The BRC director general said

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Legal challenge to coalition’s emergency budget

The equality campaigning Fawcett Society has launched a ground-breaking high court case to have the coalition’s emergency budget declared unlawful as MPs were not told that women would bear the brunt of the economic pain.

Represented by lawyers from Cherie Blair’s Matrix Chambers,

Law breaking windbreak

The officer grimly surveyed the rough and open terrain carefully through his field glasses watching for those dangerous tell-tale signs. Suddenly he froze, his binoculars fixed on the far distance.

“Jonesey! Quick!” he gasped to his comrade as he offered over the binoculars, “Look!”

Ian Tomlinson, his family and the police let down by the criminal justice system

The family of Ian Tomlinson who died after he was pushed to the ground by a police officer, has seen the man who may have been responsible for his death evade prosecution.

Peter Mandelson ‘The Third Man’ memoirs controversy

He has been described as the ‘Prince of Darkness’ and much worse,  Peter Mandelson’s shrewd and calculating political, financial manipulation is always going to attract scrutiny in his memoirs but his insight into the inner sanctum of political power is what political speculators and commentators will dissect over the coming months.

Is it open season on monetary policy?

Since the Lib-Tory pact stumbled into power, the economic newswires have been focusing wholeheartedly on the fiscal side of policy – the setting up of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the tough June Budget, and now all the shenanigans around the independence of the OBR,

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