Monthly Archives: January 2011

One week into our first full year of austerity and you can see 2011 unravelling before your eyes… No sooner had Osborne returned from his ‘we’re all in this together’ £11,000 family skiing jaunt in Klosters – the winter playground … Continue reading →

Unbelievably, if not at all surprisingly, Osborne and Cameron today signalled that they had no intention of limiting the bonuses paid by state-owned banks to state-employed bankers. So, having bailed out the banks to the tune of a mighty £1 … Continue reading →

Andy Coulson, Cameron’s Director of Comunications, has finally resigned in the wake of the News of the Screw’s telephone hacking scandal. Word is that one of his former reporters was about to dish the dirt on Coulson by showing that … Continue reading →

Nine of the twenty Somerset libraries earmarked for closure by In-The-Red-Ken’s True Blue county council could be saved. By reducing opening hours across all libraries in the county it’s hoped that resources can be reallocated to keep some libraries from … Continue reading →

The UK economy contracted by a shock 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010. This on the back of the beginnings of a recovery delivered in the dying days of the Labour government, but of course claimed as its own … Continue reading →