Keynesian Liberal

It would be churlish to be too critical of Chris Huhne's acceptance of £17 207 (tax free, I think) severance pay after voluntarily resig...

It is incredible how the Tory spin doctors and their allies in the right-wing press have succeeded and continue to succeed in turning truth ...

You would think that the statement that one of the reasons for there being over a million unemployed young people in Britain is "poor p...

As many commentators have pointed out, if de-knighting and de-nobling are to become the order of the day than many people in addition to Fr...

Yesterday's Radio 4 programme, "David Cameron's Big Idea" (13h30 on 15/01/12: available for a week on the BBC's "...

I don't pretend to be an expert on the highly complex welfare system, but it seems to me that, in his Guardian article, " Beveridge...

Although firmly on the right David Cameron seems to have spent the last week clomping around with two left feet. First he quite unnecessaril...

When talking or writing about the causes of his summer's riots it is perhaps best to avoid the word "understanding." This wor...

In the past 48 hours keynesianliberal has passed another milestone and received its 2 000th "pagehit." This is an average of just ...

The good thing that came out of the banking crisis was the chance to break the existing pattern of the industry by doing something construct...

The long weekend of "remembrance" which has just passed has been the usual uneasy mixture of national pride, nostalgia, sanitisati...

In the bad old Labour government days state welfare benefits and pensions were indexed in the following April according to the inflation rat...

Thank goodness there is at least one senior clergymen of the Church of England prepared to "Stand up for Jesus" or, more prosaicly...

The Lord Mayor of London, is reported to have complained that the protest outside St Paul's Cathedral is not a positive protest for jobs...

For the background to this post please see Testament of Yoof 1 Fourthly, a Liberal is a Rationalist. He will base his arguments on fact...

A few days ago I read that a Lord Hunt of Wirral is the "front runner" to become Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. I am...

This is a post-script to the previous post, Upwardly Mobile Tadpoles. One of things things I do in order to try to keep senility at bay is t...

All the parties, and even the egalitarian Polly Toynbee, are currently obsessed by the concept of social mobility: that everyone, regardless...

The removal of people's employment rights etc affects this generation only, but the proposed bonfire of planning regulations will affec...

From time to time the media publish shock-horror stories that people are having to sell their houses in order to fund their elderly care. I...