Pragmatist

This week saw the publication of two reports that highlight the woeful set of priorities that govern the activities of the Public Account...

I must say I'm enjoying all this "Big Society" malarkey. The debate about what in the hell it means, the irony of Liverpool C...

Congratulations to the Financial Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on their exposé on the gross fraud, waste and ineptitude...

Isn't it annoying that the 'news' media 'report' on the results of research, but never provide a link to the source? Wel...

In this age of bold government budget cuts, it seems odd timing for "Equalities Minister" Lynne Featherstone to waste time and mon...

Leading economist, Paul Krugman, continues to argue forcefully that Governments of economies in recession should spend now to support econo...

Amidst quitting my Crackberry habit, and acquiring a mild case of iPhonitis, I've largely been lurking in the blogosphere this week, rea...

Too late, we've learned that senior civil servants turned state's evidence on their New Labour masters, marking an audit trail with...

Thank you for my tax code for 2010-11. May I say how delightful it is - nay, what an honour and a privilege it is - to be given the opportun...

Surprise, surprise: the MPs' suggestion for keeping their own noses out of the trough is to create another Quango ( number 191 ). The...

For every scandal there seems to be an heroic whistleblower working tirelessly to expose the thing, ignored by all in authority. For the MPs...