Gordon Brown on Fiscal Fantasy Island: Fraudster Madoff with the cash of hardworking families

Bernie Madoff was today sentenced to 150 years in prison for defrauding thousands of innocent victims. When his Ponzi scheme was rendered unsustainable by the financial crisis, the exposed Madoff admitted his guilt and stated he was too ashamed even to seek his victims’ forgiveness.
Yet Madoff’s theft of £40 billion ($65 billion) over two decades is [...]

Government defeats motion to hold Iraq War Inquiry in public ‘whenever possible’

Hard to see the idea of holding an inquiry in public ‘whenever possible’ as undesirable, isn’t it?
Unless of course, the war was started by your party contrary to your party’s and public opinion. And if the British public was misled about the intelligence justification, purpose and legality of the war. And if the war was [...]

Can we believe the NHS’s management ratios?

An extremely well-informed source within a leading NHS trust has spilt the beans to cantankerous on how NHS trusts, and the NHS in general, have managed to hide the fact that the number of managers in the NHS has been growing out of control.
Here is how the statistics are manipulated: when compiling the number of [...]

Waster of the Month – June 2009 – Lord Karan Bilimoria

Cobra Beer tastes bitter to unsecured creditors