Zealous Keynesians (like Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman) defend their indefensible position (huge state debt and massive public spending are just fine, while ‘austerity’ and tax-cuts are a bad idea) with the dogged tenacity of Davy Crocket at the Alamo. Martin

  SHUT your eyes and think of Margaret Thatcher (twin-set, hair-do, hand bag, smells nice) and Fidel Castro (combat fatigues, bushy beard, revolver, smells of backy). Which one is the firebrand working-class revolutionary? The answer, of course, is Mrs Thatcher. The vile

It is the hypocrisy of the BBC’s Red Nose Relief which is most upsetting. What a lie. What a charade. A bunch of light entertainers are ferried out to Africa at the licence-fee payers’ expense, and they are upset to find poverty and disease. They then tell us that,

If you want to know what an ‘Ofcom for the press’ will do, ask me.  The ‘reasonable’ restraints of Ofcom have resulted in a shocking restriction of free speech. Ofcom acts like the polite face of a left-Statist lynch mob. Broadcasters are wary of

  What are we to make of the claims, from Labour and the Tories, that members of UKIP are racist?  I have met racist Labour party members before (they don’t like ‘cheap labour’) and a few ignorant Bufton-Tufton racist Tories.  But the only