Interesting report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies . Younger people are poorer on average than older people. As ever, I love ane...

Yesterday CU wrote on the use / abuse made by Corbyn of the phrase "so-called free market", with several comments ensuing around w...

What is it with this 'so-called' phrase, very popular amongst ignorant people. Above is Jeremy Corbyn using it today is his sad and ...

Some more musings over just how potentially revolutionary is the situation that may be brewing in the triumphant Corbyn / McDonnell / Mome...

I guess it is hard to expect any different from the FT, but today's headline of how worried the City are (in reality it is an ex-ban...

  ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. An...

... 'waste crime' - or so saith the Environment Agency . "The offences, sometimes involving organised crime gangs, range from...

This is a very telling piece to come out today from the ONS. There has been very little economic impact of Brexit. The remoaners will be k...

Horror ! Black crepe around Schloss Drew as Mrs D can no longer claim Brad Pitt on the family tree .  Perhaps in square brackets? ND

Everyone forgets you, that's what - even if you had a bit of a name in your time. Also on the noticeboard at the weekend was this sad ...

Back at Oxford this weekend, to be greeted with ... Well, I suppose there's a Duty of Care, but - really? At dinner I sat *this* ...

Here's a great story from the Graun that confirms several aspects of my outlook on life, of which more below.   An inhaler that prote...

Returning home from a very damp Paris to an equally damp London to read all about Hinkley: what a ridiculous state of affairs.  Is there any...

OK, so UKIP are not in a very good state at the moment. As I wrote here a week or two ago, they are desperately in need of not just a ...

Yesterday the global markets lost nearly 2% on fears that the US candidate Hillary Clinton had stumbled and was a bit ill. Today the index...

I have very little time for Liam Fox (" by their acolytes shall ye know them ") but even a stopped clock can be fleetingly right, ...

It is weird that Prime Minister May has kicked off with Grammar schools as her first non-Brexit policy. Hinkley and Heathrow are there (al...

Mr Q's post yesterday on the travails of Sports Direct, and Jan's comment on companies " where the top brass never really know ...

I once worked for Sports Direct. But by accident. I was a senior manager in another clothing company that had got into trouble. Mr Ashley kn...

Open those valves There is a pronounced and timely surplus of natural gas right now, with no obvious end in sight.  With even Gazprom ha...