The perils of pandering to PricewaterhouseCoopers
This is something that broke while Yr Obdt Srvt was still recovering from a recent illness, but is still worth …
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Public money is being thrown away on government-contracted scroungers
It turns out that some people really do get to lie around all day, doing nothing apart from watching the …
Plebgate v NHS lies – why is one the lead on the news when the other was buried?
In the mid-1990s I interviewed for a reporter’s job at the then-fledgeling BBC News website. I didn’t get it. Considering …
The State of Osborne: a visitor’s guide
If anybody else had prattled on for 50 minutes while hardly uttering a single sensible word, they would have been …
The great wage con is keeping you poor
Is anyone else sick of employers bleating that the minimum wage is hindering their business? They must think we’re all …
Labour’s Living Wage tax break exposes the Tories’ ‘making work pay’ lie
Just one day after the TUC leader said the Coalition has broken the historic link between economic growth and rising …
Are these the men who would be king?
There is a certain kind of person who takes great delight in commenting on political blogs with a variant of …
Revealed: ConDem ‘vendetta’ against citizens it believes are livestock
It has been rumoured that V for Vendetta ‘Guy Fawkes’ masks are to be banned from large-scale public demonstrations in …
ConDem government launches all-out attack on your freedoms (who’ll get your vote next week?)
It’s all been about freedom this week – or the lack of it. A couple of days ago, Mark McGowan …
Let’s cut the link between politicians and tax avoidance firms
Why are the ‘Big 4’ accountancy firms – the companies at the heart of every major scheme for tax avoidance …