Benn sees the light
The government has made a sensible choice on the issue of light bulbs, I believe. The headlines ran that traditional light bulbs will be phased out by 2012 - but the key here is that the initiative is voluntary. Supermarkets and energy…
Review of the Papers, Thursday 27 September
Government Gordon Brown has vowed to close any tax loophole that benefits private equity, in an attempt to allay Labour concerns that he has been too generous to the "super-rich". The prime minister was challenged on Wednesday at the Labour…
Heard it all before...
The new Brown government is doing an incredible and shameless job of presenting a whole new load of ideas as though the past ten years were a massive mistake that was none of their doing. In the same way we don't vote for a Prime Minister…
The Government got it wrong, wrong, wrong
Ed Balls has finally admitted that the government has got it wrong on education over the past ten years and that their pledge to have their three main priorities as education, education, education has been a total failure. At least, he…
Review of the Papers, Wednesday 26 September
Government An independent exams watchdog is to be created in an effort to limit the annual debate about grade inflation and "dumbing down", the government will announce today. Ed Balls, the children's secretary, will announce plans to…
Review of the Papers, Tuesday 25 September
**Government ** The defence secretary is today set to announce that British troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are to receive a 25 per cent cut in their council tax bills. Des Browne will tell the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth…
Darling u-turns
Apparently “-No government should ever be in the business of protecting executives who make the wrong call or bad decisions-,” or so said Alastair Darling at the opening of yesterday's conference. But isn't this exactly what he did little…
Review of the Papers, Monday 24 September
Government Executives at high-profile companies cannot rely on being bailed out of emergencies by the government - in spite of the precedent set by the state's help for Northern Rock savers - Alistair Darling warned on Sunday. "No…
Clean hospitals? What a novel idea
Yesterday Gordon Brown made one of the most ground breaking, novel, ingenious, brilliant promises any politician has ever made. The saviour of the NHS promised us clean hospitals for all. Yes, that's right - while the rest us having been…
Review of the Papers, Friday 21 September
British ministers are refusing to cooperate with the US criminal investigation into allegations of corruption against BAE, Britain's biggest arms company, the Guardian can disclose. More than two months after an official request for mutual…