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Tag Archives: Gordon Brown
Liquidity
Do you have sufficient ‘liquidity’, readers? Are you among those ‘hard-pressed working families’ who inhabit the ‘squeezed middle’? Has your salary been frozen or cut? Or are you out of a job altogether? Are you threatened with … Continue reading
Posted in UK politics
Tagged Gordon Brown, hedge fund managers, Quantitative Easing, SponsorAScholar
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Miliband
Even by New Labour’s standards, yesterday’s speech by Ed Miliband has to be one of the lamest I have ever heard from a politician, let alone from the leader of a party that claims to represent the centre-left. It … Continue reading
Posted in UK politics
Tagged Ed Miliband speech, Gordon Brown, Labour party conference
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The wisdom of Tony Blair
The sage of Fettes offers us his thoughts on the riots in today’s Observer and his analytical instincts remain as shallow as ever. Blair rightly rejects the moralistic Cameronian rhetoric about a broken society. But his own analysis … Continue reading
Discipline and fear
Nurses, teachers, doctors and all you other do-nothings who have been living high on the hog at the taxpayer’s expense: be afraid, be very afraid. The time is coming when you will be held to account for the financial … Continue reading
Posted in Age of austerity, UK politics
Tagged Andrew Marr, Gordon Brown, Oliver Letwin
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