Gordon Brown has ruled out a handout to help people with winter fuel payments a few days after his office was insisting that he definitely wasn’t. Add those two together and you have the possibility of a windfall tax which will only be used to reduce the PSBR. Since this would almost certainly be total… Continue reading Who is worse news for Labour? Charles Clarke or Compass?
Tag: economics
University placement? Don’t we have people for that?
Frank Furedi, who I have always considered to be the sensible wing of the Revolutionary Communist Party, has attacked the decision by universities to allow students seeking placement to appoint proxies (usually parents): Frank Furedi, social commentator and professor of sociology at the University of Kent, says that controlling parents are “destroying the distinction between… Continue reading University placement? Don’t we have people for that?
Tim Leunig: moonlighting down under?
Is it a coincidence that a few days after Tim Leunig apparently goes to Australia, a mayor in that country gets in trouble for saying this?