The Guardian today has a very interesting map of the UK showing, by area, the public sector workforce as a proportion of the total workforce. The areas in bright red are…well…predictable.

It’s more like Paris ‘68 than the traditional British reserve on view today in London ’10. Students have hurled bricks and firebombs, smashing their way into the wrong building – all under the watchful eye of news helicopters and a hapless Kay Burley not knowing that the Conservatives had moved out […]

You can bet that the BBC weren’t trying to do UKIP a favour when they organised this 3 minute long “introduction” to the four candidates for the leadership of the party. And sure enough it has hardly been edited generously either. A few seconds each, then for Nigel Farage, David Campbell-Bannerman, […]

That graph says it all really. The level of spiralling and unsustainable spending doom isn’t really changing at all. Where were the real cuts today? It was all a bit wimpish in the end. One of these every year until 2014 might have made a difference but today’s CSR won’t. […]

…says “Baroness” Uddin. Ah, the old ‘crime is part of my religion’ defence! We saw yesterday that ‘peers’ Uddin, Paul and Bhatia face suspension from the House of Lords for varying terms and have been ordered to pay back £125,000, £40,000 and £27,000 respectively. From the very useful rolling political […]

David Cameron’s official measured, thoughtful and statesmanlike response to Ed Miliband’s election. David Cameron’s private reaction to the news that EdM was rejected both by his party members and MP’s and only elected because of the Trade Union vote:

The “big” announcement is due in exactly two hours time. Will it be the one who looks like a rapist or the one who looks like he has Down’s Syndrome? A nation waits with bated breath, and other oral disorders. Victory by the younger irritating wonkish one would delight the […]

A pity that Uber-dick Tom Harris is responsible for this, but despite that it’s funny.

News hits us today that benefit fraud will be tackled partly by using credit rating agencies making use of commercially-available data. All of the information in the world is useless unless you know how to query it intelligently, so to use welfare data and data that is publicly available or […]

The Treasury has just launched a website yesterday (how’s that Government website culling going? Not so well, apparently) where civil servants can submit ideas about how to save cash. The plan is that the site will be opened up to the general public on 8th July. The Spending Challenge is your […]