Feb 19 2008
According to the government 2012 will be a year of plenty with the golden shower of the Olympic Games to sustain us; but not everyone is quite so sanguine with fool.co.uk leading the chorus of doomsayers who believe that life could get very hard for people living in the UK.
Lets not discuss the cost of [...]
Oct 24 2007
Are buy to let owners speculators or investors who take otherwise undesirable properties, maintain them and provide a rental accommodation sector that local councils no longer provide?
As various experts ponder on the long term future of buy to let and also question whether the sector contributes to the economy or simply pushes up house prices, [...]
Oct 13 2007
In a shocking volte-face that left the good people of the central belt speechless, the Labour government has decided to start supporting married couples with the admission that “children notice” when their parents are married. As Chief Secretary to the Treasury says “I don’t seek to preach to anybody, but in an abstract way I [...]
Oct 12 2007
It is becoming a fact of life that every labour budget offers fantastic tax cuts from different member of our community (god I hate that word) which are later revealed to have been nullified by swingeing tax rises somewhere else.
Two techniques are favoured: introduce benefits which can only be enjoyed after an Operation Overlord level [...]