Keynesian Liberal

The publication of research into the thinking and motives (or lack of it and lack of them) of the summer rioters stimulated horrifying pictu...

Ken Clarke is often lauded, or dammed, as the fifth Liberal in the cabinet, but his decision to impose mandatory minimum sentences on certa...

The service began with an introit, then a hymn, and then a dignitary (the Dean?) launched off with "Dearly beloved..." No ...

I was re-introduced to cycling in my two years of Voluntary Service Overseas in Malaŵi. There we were each issued with a bike as a means of...

The Vickers Report on banking has received a half-hearted welcome. The consensus seems to be that a "firewall" between retail bank...

It was anounced last Sunday (10th April) that the government is to forbid local authorities fining those who transgress their rubbish collec...

Keynesianliberal is one today. In the year since the first post on 8th April, 2010, in the early stages of the general election campaign, t...

Michael Gove's amendments to the original EMA proposals were greeted by shrieks of "U turn" from the Labour Party. I find thi...

As part of some long-overdue clearing out I have come accross the log book of a hike I organised, with a female colleague and her husand, i...

Last week I was flattered to be chosen by my U3A class to propose the vote of thanks to our lecturer at the end of our course. I should hav...

In a Guardian article John Cridland, Director General of the CBI, paints a glowing picture of public service pensioners living off the fat ...

Cecil Rhodes, the colonist of central Africa, is said to have claimed that: "To be born British is to have won first prize in the lotte...

Apparently we have a Ministry for Tourism and it is thinking of abolishing the May Day bank holiday and replacing it with one in October, po...

Bus subsidies and library services seem to be high on the list of things to be reduced as a result of the cuts imposed by central government...

I seemed to receive a rather large number of Christmas cards this year featuring pillar boxes or post boxes, and assumed this was some sor...

A large part of this morning's Radio 4 "Today" programme was devoted to international aid: does it help development or hinder ...

As Chris Wales acknowledges, the "equality" question is so broad and deep that it deserves several posts rather than a few comment...

In a comment on an earlier post Chris Wales confesses that he's not too keen on the state trying to preserve a measure of equality in s...

The British winter no longer comes as an annual surprise, but we are still not sufficiently certain that it will be so regular and prolonged...

There are forecasts that the proposed cap on immigration is likely to reduce vastly the number of foreign student in our universities. This...