Snouts in the Trough

Today the government will start announcing its cuts. In fact no money will be saved as the cost of redundancies will be higher than any savings. The real way to cut spending is to put all public-sector administrative and managerial staff on a 4-day week – working Monday through Thursday. This would save £200m a [...]

Several of the contestants for Labour leadership are claiming that they thought the Iraq war was a mistake and that they were against it.  Why? Because they really believe this? Or because they know that saying it will help their chances of being elected? Yet if they were so opposed to the Iraq war, it’s [...]