On Wednesday it was revealed that former Tory treasurer Michael Spencer‘s financial broking company, ICAP, had been fined £55m for fixing the LIBOR market. Spencer, who owns 17% of the company valued at £2.41bn has donated almost £5m to the Conservative … Continue reading
To any sensible person that has bothered to study a little modern world history, socialism in the sense of the Marxist philosophy, was a great idea but not a practical one. In the UK, especially in the 1970’s, we had … Continue reading
Hardly a week passes without another report of incompetent ministers mismanaging major governmental policy implementation. Last time it was IDS’s £300m cock-up at the DWP and this week it’s Jeremy Hunt and £1.2bn of public funds (for the hard of counting … Continue reading
“During his lifetime Cyril Smith was one of the UK’s best-known politicians. But a new investigation shows that security services held on to a file with evidence of the Liberal MP’s child abuse.” Video © Channel 4 /ITN Two months … Continue reading
Today Nick Clegg said to the Liberal Democrat’s conference that the LibDems are “not here to prop up the two-party system“. Really? The first clip above (all videos are best watched in full screen for subtitle readability) is Lord Razzall, former Chair of the Liberal Democrats’ Campaigns … Continue reading
(Originally published 8th August 2013 – video has been upgraded) One of the cornerstones of our parliamentary democracy in the UK is that the Prime Minister is required to be accountable for the decisions of his government. This accountability is, in part, … Continue reading
Fox News (sigh)…decide for yourself – here’s the UK’s Charlie Brooker‘s take on Fox News: Post amended due to removal of Youtube clip on copyright grounds. Related articles Fox hunting: the right-wing’s chronically angry war for ideological purity is killing … Continue reading
The first few blog ‘comments’ that I received I thought were real compliments – I know, hubris! Anyway, I just checked my Spam folder and came across this message from a spammer that clearly could not be bothered to edit the … Continue reading
David Cameron and the coalition are having a bit of a bad time. Last week the UN’s Special Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, called for the abolition of the ‘bedroom tax’ saying: “I was very shocked to hear how people really feel abused … Continue reading
Thursday’s ‘The Wright Stuff‘ on channel Five featured Class A numpty and former Conservative Party Parliamentary candidate Dr David Bull (see video – for readability best viewed in full screen mode) talking about Wednesday’s Tory created media storm in response to accusations … Continue reading
If you haven’t seen the film Inside Job yet then whatever you think you know about the financial crisis and its causes is probably wrong. The video* below is NOT the whole film – it consists of the trailer and background interviews … Continue reading
It’s Monday so it must be another BBC bashing article from the Telegraph’s “general news” reporter (really, what kind of title is that?) Hayley Dixon. I would have been tempted to read the entire article however, due to the fundamental factual … Continue reading
Well it took longer than I expected (fully three years) but it has finally started to happen in earnest. After a few false starts, this government’s fakery and statistical misrepresentations have been unable to cover up the disastrous effects of … Continue reading
I Am Incorrigible 