Keynesian Liberal

The Times is said  to have once headlined a story: "Fog in Channel -  Continent isolated."  A similar, doubtless apocryphal, sto...

Yesterday the Guardian had to retract its claim that  the Big Six energy suppliers were to be investigated for "alleged collusion...

I have just finished John Campbell's very detailed and highly readable biography of Roy Jenkins.  Campbell admits to being a Jenkins fa...

I was unable to keep awake long enough to see Jeremy Paxman's final exit from Newsnight last night but I shed no tears at his departure...

Forty-four years ago to the day, on the 18th June, 1970, I first stood for parliament in the Liberal interest.*  I can't remember now w...

In the UK we have the rather shifty idea that changing the name of an organisation will  either eradicate the memory of past mishaps or bre...

Some twenty  years ago  (or maybe thirty - how time flies when you're retired) some politician was sounding off about how immigrants to...