He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. Maybe I’m seeing this in too simplified a way, but what we appear to have coming out from government is an outbreak of the sensibles. I’ll give you a moment to …
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The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope. OUT: Priti Patel, Nadine Dorries, Dominic Raab, Greg Clark, Johnny Mercer, Grant Shapps IN: Kwasi Kwarteng, Suella Braverman, Tom Tugendhat, Teresa Colley, James Cleverly It’s over, finally. The long hot Summer, the dying embers of the Johnson era are doused. The …
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A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded …
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. There are so many phrases to describe the situation that we seem to be in at the moment with regards to the leader of our great nation. Horns of a dilemma, Hobsons Choice, lesser of two evils…. In essence, …
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Heating equipment manufacturer Worcester Bosch hosted the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak MP, last week (July 8) and gave him an insight into the company’s prototype hydrogen boiler. Sunak met with employees, including a number of apprentices, and toured the Worcester Bosch facilities. Martyn Bridges, director of technical communication …
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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable For a long time after the demise of the Green Deal, the coalition government’s overly complicated energy efficiency scheme for householders, the industry talked of the need …
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The Green Homes Grant, to be announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer this week, will give hundreds of thousands of homeowners vouchers of up to £5,000 for energy-saving home improvements, a move which the Treasury hopes will help to support more than 100,000 jobs in the industry. Rishi Sunak …
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One sickly sheep infects the flock, And poisons all the rest I feel quite sorry for poor old Rishi Sunak. There he was last week, our newly minted Chancellor of the Exchequer, all scrubbed and shiny at the despatch box like the head boy proudly standing up at his …
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