The first casualties of the HIPs fiasco have already fallen.  It is being reported that many of the first packs have to be scrapped because they have been deemed invalid.  It is also reported that other packs are being held up because local…

It is getting to him - and so soon too.  That is to say Alan Johnson is already suffering from his role as Secretary for Health as it makes him come out with bizarre policy suggestions.  The latest one sounds as though it should have come…

Do you ever get the feeling that the government is pulling the wool over your eyes?  It seems they can never be straight about how much money they are going to take off you to spend on their latest social experiment or landmark building…

Haven't had time to post for the past few days, thanks to preparing our response to the latest in the never-ending stream of consultations the Government has been running to make it look like they are listening, before proceeding to do…

Vote Dave!  He has come up with a sure fire, water tight, can not fail, genius idea to save the future of this country.  It won't be long until we leave our front doors open again, teenagers will stop their underage drinking, boys will stop…

Government in poor value for money shocker!  This time, however, it is a "-master class in bungling-"! Edward Leigh MP, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has described the Single Farm Payment Scheme, introduced two years ago…

The education debate has rumbled on longer than usual it seems this year in the aftermath of the annual GCSE/A level dumbing down standards debate.  One of the reasons, I suspect, is that the mass investment from the Labour government is…

Despite reports last week that the NHS has gloriously balanced the books and managed to hoard £1bn of public money to "reinvest" in the health service, there are reports that Junior Doctors are being short changed by £500 a week due to…