Keynesian Liberal

  January has produced the annual bout of media chatter about New Year Resolutions, with prominent among them this year, losing weight by in...

  I dislike the term “playing politics.”   “Playing” normally refers to games.   A good move or result in chess, football, rounders or wha...

 In the mid 1930s, just before I was born, there  was a proposal that our local Unban District of Birstall, with its own elected Council, sh...

 The end of the year seems a good time to compose an inventory of the state of the UK's public realm after 14 years of Conservative rule...