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. …read more
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. …read more
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.
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, …read more
Vince Cable, the coalition Business Secretary has said that there is less money in the pot and that with more people having the opportunity to go to university graduates will have to pay more towards the cost.
Long gone are the days when so few (about 5%) …read more
If the UK coalition government were ever under the impression that they would get a ‘honeymoon’ period in office they were very mistaken.
The savage cuts they are being forced to make are going to impact on every facet of our lives. …read more
The new allowance rules prevent MPs who live within an hour’s commute of Westminster from claiming the now infamous second home allowance.
Some MPs are also owed money …read more
OK the headline is a bit tabloid but Vince Cable was the face that met the public and panel backlash to the budget on question time. Ed Balls, Caroline Lucas, and Peter Hitchens all had grievances with the coalition’s first budget and voiced their opinions accordingly.
The public sector pension review is upon us and to many in the private sector it is long overdue. There is a deep sense of unfairness with regard to one sector’s pensions (The public sector’s pensions) being propped up by workers in the private sector. So in comes John Hutton, a former Labour cabinet minister to take the flak. 
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Every person suspected of a crime and brought to a police station for questioning is entitled to ‘free and independent legal advice’ and they are entitled to this at any time whilst they are in custody.
In layman’s terms what happens is this, …read more
Once the BP investigation got back underway after a vote forced a break in proceedings it became obvious which way this enquiry was going to go.
Like the protestor, Diane Wilson who with black painted hands and face …read more
Keeping people in poverty
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Are 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 …read more
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