By the time you read this Venezuela will have entered a whole new phase – either a shuddering halt to the Bolivarian Revolution and the reinstating of a liberal, pro-US Government, or the next incarnation of what has becoming the country’s driving force for the last two decades. On 27th February 1989 in [...]
Of course cuts are what’s required to promote growth in the British economy – but only when the Chancellor cuts the right amount in the right places and pumps money into other areas that need it, will he unlock the key to recovery. If George Osborne’s budgetary policies were collected and written down in [...]
Across the Western world austerity has been rejected by every populace which has had it forced on them by their Governments. But taxes, the deal-breaker of economic policy, are entering a new age. Are we seeing a return to a staunch belief in progressive taxation? No – just a change of mood. Franklin D. Roosevelt, [...]
As the gay marriage vote split the Conservatives, it also revealed quite how fractious they have become -and how anti-progressive they still remain. Eurosceptics outnumber europhiles, social conservatives outnumber social liberals, and neo-liberals outnumber One Nation Tories. Yet the battle for the soul of the party is in the hands of one of its most [...]
