Money

Evasion, avoidance, reduction… Stealing. Well, not quite, dear Lib Dem friends. I agree with you on many things, but not here. They are not all the same thing. Evasion is Read more

But not the people journalists mean. Matthew d’Ancona, in his Evening Standard column on Monday, trivialised the important and necessary debates over welfare reform into a soap opera style personal battle. Read more

Vince Cable and George Osborne are forming an effective tag team in putting pressure on banks to lend to small and medium-sized enterprises. Their argument is that the lack of Read more

Despite claims to the contrary from the Labour party, it is simply not true that the scrapping of Building Schools for the Future was a breaking of a promise made by George Read more

Today’s Budget is being hailed as either progressive and fair, or the worst thing to happen to Britain since… umm, well, what the last Conservative government had to do to Read more

Back in March 2010, I argued that the budget delivered by Alistair Darling not only failed to map out a credible plan for Britain to stabilise its national debt but that Read more

David T Breaker expands on his conversation with Betapolitics Nick (@Betapolitics) blogged on these pages earlier about his recent Twitter discussion with me (@Davidtbreaker) regarding the “living wage”, and how Read more

“We are all in this together” George Osborne told us in 2009. We now know that ‘this’ is a £156billion black hole. It’s the equivalent of more than £31,000 for Read more

What was the most important political event of last week? Was it the volcanic ash sponsored travel chaos? Was it Cleggmania? Was it the Sky News debate? For me the Read more

Just for the record, as there seems to have been doubt in the past – I am a Conservative. I am not generally someone who is in favour of restricting Read more