A lot of words have been printed about the Green Deal and ECO schemes. Many of them derogatory (and many of those in this very blog).

We've all been there. Driving along a perfectly good road when - wham - the car gives a lurch when hits a pothole, leaving you a bit jittery at best or with a messed up tyre if you're unlucky.

Once upon a time, there was Labour Government who disagreed with the idea that some people were born to rule over others just because of who their Daddy was. So they set about trying to abolish an institution called the House of Lords, which included some people who were entitled to be their because of…

I got home this afternoon to find the post-box stuffed with a leaflet from the Electoral Commission, explaining the EU Referendum and how I can cast my vote.

If the measure of a successful presentation is to make your audience feel as though you are talking directly to them or about them, then Charlotte Graham-Cumming hit the jackpot with hers last Friday.

Excuse my French but, oh bloody hell.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

What goes around comes around. We talk a lot about economics being a cycle, of recessions coming every seven to 10 years and sometimes things happen that drive that thought home. So it is with the news that Forterra (ex Hanson Building Products) is to mothball two of the brick factories it re-opened only a…

Woah. Talk about the morning of the long knives. Ken Clarke described Teresa May as a "bloody difficult woman" - something I'm not entirely sure wasn't a compliment - and the events of July 14 AM showed that she's not going to sort stuff out over a cup of tea and a slice of lemon…

It being August, Britain, and the school summer holidays, naturally I'm looking out of my window at a grey, wet, dreary morning.