No one is useless in this world who helps lighten the burdens of another. It’s not Help to Buy, but it will Help to Buy. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to introduce a new scheme to try to help people onto the property ladder, specifically those who may have given …
Read More »Cummings’ final goings
Expelliarmus To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to get rid of one political irritant may be fortunate, to get rid of two, seems like good planning. Barely a week after the US electorate turned out in their millions to send the Joe Biden/Kamal Harris partnership on the path to the White House, …
Read More »Cummings, not goings
“Yond Cassius hath a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous” Well, that was excruciating. Yesterday we were treated to a prime-time TV spectacle of the Prime Minister’s Special Advisor Dominic Cummings sitting at a picnic table in the Downing Street Rose Garden trying to …
Read More »BMF hunts out prospective PMs’ plans
Under a Government led by Jeremy Hunt MP, there would be a Budget in the first week of September to prepare for the possibility of leaving the EU on a no-deal basis on 31 October, the Foreign Secretary has told the BMF. Hunt, alongside his Prime Ministerial rival Boris Johnson …
Read More »Five uncomfortable looking stools
It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I tried. Truly, honestly, I tried to stick with it. But it was just so irritating and predictable. I ended up switching over to Italy v Brazil. At least that meant I was watching …
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