The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

BBC News – Election 2010: Gloves off in second leaders' debate. It's odd to watch an election from this distance. It seems a little like a magic trick. The performers are focussing our attention on one thing, while the real action goes unnoticed. As voters peer and struggle to discern…

Labour has politicised the management of the police and subverted the charitable sector to its political ends. Want evidence? You can find it here and here (both in Labour's Pravda of course). Public servants should stay out of politics. Elections are for them just like a board meeting where directors…

Who has David Cameron been talking to?. What a useful public service. Just refresh the linked page to get anecdote after Cameron anecdote and all about as accurate as the original. (h/t Crazy Elmont) Now you don't need to watch the next debate. Too negative a view? Well it is…

FT.com / Columnists / Luke Johnson – Why I have signed up to political change. Business in Britain has played along with Labour. It has had little choice as more and more of the economy came under state control. Many businesses developed a strategy of "liberating" as much money as…

I recently blogged that "In the General Election campaign, no mainstream party is talking about debt reduction." Today I read the new Conservative manifesto and there, on the first page, are these words: Today the challenges facing Britain are immense. Our economy is overwhelmed by debt, our social fabric is…

Map Of The Day: Awesome Visualization Of Global Debt Levels. (click to enlarge) In the General Election campaign, no mainstream party is talking about debt reduction. They only speak (unconvincingly) of reducing the deficit (i.e. the rate at which we are going into debt). We are falling off a cliff…