The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 84% owned by the state, has announced that it will be cutting 3,500 people from its payroll in the UK. …read more
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RBS sheds 3,500 jobs in the UK
Friday, September 3rd, 2010IMF says UK debt will keep going up
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the UK’s gross debt when compared to gross GDP could increase to 90.6% by 2015. in 2007 it was only 44.1%. …read more
To share or not to share
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
It can only be described as farcical. Like something out of the SitCom ‘Yes Prime Minister’ it has been mooted that the UK and France are on the verge of declaring that they will share their aircraft carriers. …read more
Kabul Bank taken over by Afghan authorities
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Kabul Bank, a financial institution part owned by President Hamid Karzai’s brother, has been taken control of by the Central Bank of Afghanistan. …read more
Keeping people in poverty
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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 …read more
Taxes to stay high for five years
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
The Treasury chief LibDem MP Danny Alexander, has made it abundantly clear that the tax burden is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Speaking to the Observer, he said that in order to balance the nation’s books tax must remain at its current level for at least the length of this parliament. …read more
Budget targets the wrong people
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has completely rejected the coalition government’s claim that the budget was fair and protected the more vulnerable in society.
Calling George Osborne’s budget “clearly regressive” the IFS …read more
The motorist hit in the pocket again
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Every day brings more bad news for that most vilified of person, the motorist. It seems now that councils have resurrected the scheme to charge workers for their work car parking spaces. …read more
The UK is recovering, but not rebalancing
Friday, August 20th, 2010
The past week has been a good one for the UK economy. Following on from the surprising news that GDP grew by 1.1% in the second quarter, the past week’s data suggest that the recovery is continuing apace. Stripping out petrol, retail sales increased by …read more
Sex for money is legal – for some
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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 …read more
Some good news for the beleaguered motorist
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Speaking on the BBC’s The One Show on Monday, the Equalities and Criminal Information Minister Lynne Featherstone said that wheel clamping on private land would be outlawed.
This will, with the stroke of a pen, revoke …read more
And Gordon Brown replied
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010But 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. …read more
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