Murdoch is cornered
The condemnation of Rupert Murdoch as “not a fit person” to run a big international company by the Commons DCMS select committee is...
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Another unmentionable word in the Queen’s Speech: wealth
Apart from assuring us that the government’s main objective was economic stability – the stability of the graveyard...
Read this entry » Politics in wonderland: not too many enthralled
You couldn’t invent it. There’s really only one issue in Britain today that ultimately matters: how to get growth. ...
Read this entry » Osborne sticking to austerity: will the last person out turn off the light?
News that Merkel may well be about to exercise one of her skidding U-turns on growth doesn’t seem to have filtered through...
Read this entry » Hollande has a message for Labour
There are several important implications in Hollande’s convincing victory over bling-bling Sarkozy. It’s not...
Read this entry » Shareholders to control CEOs on £100,000 a week? You must be joking
The economic news this last week has been all agog at this sudden surge of shareholders in revolt. The insurer Aviva’s...
Read this entry » Tories in a hole, but carrying on digging
What is so extraordinary about the fallout from these local elections is how far the wider Tory leadership is in denial. ...
Read this entry » MI6 is out of control
Nobody knows exactly what happened to cause Gareth Williams’ body to be found padlocked in a holdall. But it does...
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What do we do about the press, not just Murdoch?
Too much attention has focused on Murdoch’s cussed personality, not enough on what kind of press we want to see in this country. At present...
Read this entry »The nuclear wheeze goes critical
Without a word being said, British householders and businesses are about to be forced to pay for a French nuclear loser. The two German energy...
Read this entry »Britain’s 1,000 richest persons made gains of £155bn in last 3 years
The Sunday Times Rich List, published today and compulsory reading for anybody who wants to understand Britain’s power structure today, holds...
Read this entry »Why should the PM control access to the independent adviser on Ministerial interests?
What if Cameron refuses to refer the Hunt case to Sir Alex Allen, the independent adviser on ministerial interests? Not for the first time Parliament...
Read this entry »The Hunt leads to No.10
Last night Jeremy Hunt had the gall to declare “the public will see that I conducted this process with absolute objectivity and scrupulous...
Read this entry »Who will speak for Britain on the economy?
The news that Britain is now in the grip of a double-dip recession for the first time for 37 years and struggling with the slowest recovery from...
Read this entry »This Leveson chain reaction will reach No.10
In typically British Establishment manner Adam Smith, chief of staff to Jeremy Hunt, fell on his sword but not before uttering the the ritual words...
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