The Case Against Osborne »
Guido Fawkes (Thu, 11:43 pm)
There is something fishy about this – how does Osborne justify a mortgage for more than the house actually cost? Isn’t that maximising the interest burden on the taxpayer to an unhealthy degree? Also this two-year period where he claimed [...]
Speccie Spaced Out »
Guido Fawkes (Thu, 11:03 pm)
Guido left the Speccie summer party early – summonsed by Mrs Fawkes who is convinced Miss Fawkes has Swine Flu. So this will probably be the first report back.
Dave did his usual 15 minutes (his routine is that he shows [...]
No News from the Government »
Guido Fawkes (Thu, 4:59 pm)
If you are not getting any government press releases emailed to your inbox Guido has found out why:
The Government News Distribution Service at the Central Office of Information is, due to a system change-over, unable to e-mail out any press [...]
Today's Web Grab »
Comment Central, The Times (Thu, 4:58 pm)
You might enjoy:
Michelle Cottle in The Plank: Love, Shmove
Les Christie in CNN Money.com: New Orleans: Fastest growing city in the U.S
Robin Goldstein in Blind Taste: Do taste and smell adjectives signal value, or do they create it?
The Croydonian: Some holiday [...]
The tweets of Tehran »
BBC: Newsnight (Thu, 4:56 pm)
From Kirsty Wark:
Last night Review's editor Liz Gibbons and I went to see an extraordinarily moving short "scratch" play at The Royal Court in London called "The Tweets of Tehran". It was a fortuitous last minute change of [...]
All forecasts are wrong. »
Hopi Sen (Thu, 4:51 pm)
I read this Brad DeLong post about the US unemployment numbers, and the Obama administrations incorrect forecast of the future path of said numbers with a sense of familiarity.
After all, in Britain too, we’ve been exposed time and again [...]