Politics

Whitehall Wastes Our Money Again

Proof of our Government’s profligacy with our money just keeps coming, from the government, itself. Brown and Blair between them pulled the biggest confidence trick ever on the British Public, and it seems a big chunk of the electorate still believes the con. Brown and the Labour party rank highest in the polls on the [...]

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The Real Scottish Problem

Despite 30 years of North Sea Oil Scotland has one of the lowest growth rates in Europe, and in some places lower life expectancy than parts of Africa. This is the same country which gave the world some of the greatest scientists, engineers, clinicians, entrepreneurs and financial managers. How does this happen. At the beginning [...]

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ToDo Lists Don’t Work

Or they don’t for me at least! My ToDo list is a bit like the laundry basket – we never quite get to the bottom It’s a combination of things: * Over ambitious expectations of myself – I’m not as diligent as I make out. * Events – as Macmillan said about politics “events change [...]

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It’s Our NHS and We Don’t Want Americans Criticising It

Message to all our American friends. – Anybody wanting to know about our healthcare just needs to ask us. They shouldn’t listen to the garbage being spouted by the nutcases. Our healthcare is no more rationed than anybody else’s. Based on a number of measures it’s more effective than the American model, at less than half [...]

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