Boris Watch

Policy Exchange is a British think tank, whose mission statement claims that it attempts to ‘develop and promote new policy ideas’. The Telegraph described it as “the largest, but also the most influential think tank on the right”, while The Guardian lambasted it as a “neo-con attack dog”. Despite the organisations claim to be “independent”, [...]

Without wanting to distract from today’s main news, which should certainly be your main concern if you have only time to read about one thing (summary: Boris intends to make 80,000 of the poorest Londoners poorer still as soon as possible), I wanted to post something about this too.
Last year, one Saturday in May, I [...]

Well, you wouldn’t have put your house on it lasting the year, but it’s now official that the deal to subsidise London public transport fares for the low paid (via a deal with Venezuela) will be scrapped in August.  Forced to choose between breaking with the pro-US ideology of his chums at Policy Exchange or [...]

OK, this is a blog.  It’s a blog written by amateurs, either students or (in my case) full time workers and parents without a lot of free time.  At most I might (as tonight) get a couple of moments spare between the kid going to bed and the missus coming home with her mates from [...]