Iain Macwhirter
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Oil spill? Sorry Guv, I just work here.
“ I’m really really sorry for this accident. I really really regret that my car left the road, killing eleven people and causing massive environmental damage. Do you take full responsibility? Well, that’s a matter for the inquiry. But you were driving the car were you not? Of … Continue reading
Sorry guys: the debt has to be paid,
They don’t call it the dismal science for nothing. You could forgive politicians of all parties for despairing of economics. Take the great deficit row. On the one hand we have all the economic analysts in the City, saying that Britain’s budget deficit is much too high, the largest peacetime deficit in history, and has … Continue reading
So Scots have a death wish?
We’re doomed. Doomed. Get out now while you still can. It’s a wonder there’s anyone left in Scotland so terrifying are the headlines about Scottish mortality. 97% of us are living dangerously unhealthy lives according to a report last week in BMC Public Health. A boy born in Glasgow can expect to live thirteen … Continue reading
Labour leadership candidates: ‘wasn’t us guv’.
The odd thing about the Labour leadership contest, nominations for which closed yesterday, is that the leading candidates all appear to have been elsewhere during the last 13 years of Labour government. How else can we account for their disowning so many of the policies pursued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The … Continue reading
CGT – more welfare for the wealthy
Is there any group in society more jealous of its privileges, more militant in defence of its perks, more determined to avoid paying tax than the ‘hard working’ British middle classes? The howls of anguish at the proposal to tax capital gains as income, part of the ConDem coalition agreement, illustrates how difficult it is … Continue reading
