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Qualifications to be a minister

15th December 2025 well_chuffed 0

With the dreadful Rachel from Complaints presenting as the most incompetent Chancellor, probably since records began there come the usual cries of why not get somebody qualified to do the job. In such cases I [more…]

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Rachel Reeves. Avoid

29th November 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

“I wasn’t born into this,” wailed Rachel Reeves, as she alternated between blaming misogyny and everyone else for the expectation-management debacle leading up to last Wednesday’s budget. Reeves even held an unprecedented press conference, pointing [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety-Two

17th August 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Monday Good morning, my good friends, and it… guess what, it’s drizzling here in London, I could have predicted that with a Test match to be won. I saw that Angel Eagle doing the rounds [more…]

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Economic Illiteracy and Dogma: this Budget encapsulates it perfectly

11th March 2024 Emile Woolf 0

As usual, the meaningless minutiae of tax-fiddling in last week’s budget stole the headlines and obscured what’s really going on. It would help if the linguistics were clearer: a tax “cut” should simply refer to [more…]

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The Chancellor’s “Autumn Mis-Statement” – An Exercise in Fiscal Subterfuge

4th December 2023 Emile Woolf 0

The deeply embedded disconnect between hype and reality looms larger than ever in government thinking. A little over a year ago Liz Truss attempted a dose of supply-side reforms to address the country’s desperate need [more…]

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