Planning my veggie patch
I see I've failed to make the Telegraph's list of top 30 British gardeners. Despite getting a runner-up prize one year in the local village gardening...
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What currency for Caledonia?
A tremendous amount of excitement has been generated by the suggestion that an independent Scotland would have to ditch the pound sterling...
Read this entry » Who has read Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations?
I’ve just tabled a Parliamentary question asking if the Chancellor, or any of this Treasury team, have read Adam Smith’s The Wealth...
Read this entry » Why I support a Scottish referendum
It’s not just because I favour localism and direct democracy. We need a debate about how closely decisions are taken to those they affect...
Read this entry » Why I support a Scottish referendum
It’s not just because I favour localism and direct democracy. We need a debate about how closely decisions are taken to those they affect...
Read this entry » Britain needs open primaries too
Daniel Hannan's blog sums up why Britain, too, needs open primary candidate selection. It is the single most important change...
Read this entry » The Austrians are coming
The only forecast I made for 2012 is that Austrian economics would be much more mainstream by the end of the year than it was at...
Read this entry » Let battle against crony capitalism commence!
I'm delighted to see the Prime Minister taking up the fight against crony capitalism. It's a theme this blog has returned to again...
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Britain says "no" – but more Europe happens anyway
Apparently there is to be an intergovernmental treaty for EU member states. Far from the Eurozone forming a separate Fiscal Union, separate from the EU, it seems...
Read this entry »How might it all unravel?
No matter how misguided we know the grand project of European Monetary Union to be, no one knows for sure how it might unravel.Will EMU struggle on for years, held...
Read this entry »How’s the growth strategy coming along?
A while back, the Treasury set up a tax break scheme designed to create jobs and growth. It involved national insurance exemptions for certain businesses, in...
Read this entry »Iowa caucus – why I hope Ron Paul triumphs
I'm wondering how the good people of Iowa will vote in the Presidential caucus? It seems to me as if the Republican contest is a two-horse race between more-of-the-same-politicians...
Read this entry »2012 – the year we ended the defence industrial scam?
Congratulations to Radio 4 - and Francis Tusa - for yesterday’s excellent Buying Defence – which put the spot-light on the scandal that is Britain’s...
Read this entry »Happy New Year from Essex
I love this time of year ... bonfires, walks in the Essex countryside, digging over the veggie patch. And, best of all, knowledge that the days are getting longer!...
Read this entry »The power of the web
According to research by Hanover Communications, the Labour backbench MP Tom Watson had a higher media profile in 2011 than every shadow minister, except...
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