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All in this together?

"I have said before that as we deal with the debt crisis we must take the whole country with us - and I mean it. George Osborne has said that our plans to cut the deficit must be based on the...

rov1100

Directors pay rises 50% in past year

Who could really object to these high flyers getting such large amounts when this country is in such a state we need top calibre people to pull us out of this mess?...

jake-the-peg

Maggie's nose in the trough

Margaret Thatcher has claimed over Half a million pounds of taxpayers money in the last 5 years for public engagements and answering letters. Only she doesn't after having been advised not to....

jomifl

Since the putative active ingredient in homeopathic medicine is diluted to statistical non -existence the adherents to this kind of therapy have explained that the curative properties reside in the...

Kayless

Greek Crisis....

So the bubbles get let off 50%. Surely though that just makes them uninvestable. Who will ever lend to them now? Would it not have been better in the long run to repay those debts by further...

jake-the-peg

Sentencing reform tough or soft?

The proposed changes to the sentencing bill is to increase the cases of mandatory life sentences. However they're being a lot quieter on the plans to abolish indeterminate sentences IPP's were brought...

sp1814

The most fantastically ignorant newspaper article of the year?

To summarise - "there was a lot more racism in football 20 years ago, so if black players face racial abuse today, they should put up and shut up":...

leylandtiger

greek debt mountain

I remember some time ago,there was a suggestion that Greece might put a number of its many islands on the market.Would this not be a good idea?,one in which Greece would be actively working toward...

anotheoldgit

Here we go again

http://www.telegraph....de-their-privacy.html What right have they got to dictate to the council where their coastal path should go? /// Travellers on the site - opened 30 years ago - say they would...

sir.prize

What's in a Word?

Tax Evasion Joe Public = Fraud Vince Cable = Oversight...

Kayless

Were the "little Englanders" right all along?

Will the hysterical pro Euro Brigade now show they are grateful we didn't join?

oldnitro

cause and effect

Would it be considered scientific heresy to say that the so called Big Bang was an effect without a cause? because if there was nothing before the event took place there was nothing to cause it to...

Kayless

Should we prop up the Euro?

It seems the folly of the Euro is finally comming home to roost. Should we let it die and hope the Eurozone reverts to something based on economics?

rov1100

Is QE a good thing?

Having printed £250bn you would think the bankers know what they are doing. However it has some downsides as has increased inflation to over 5%. Why isn't it used for Germany, France or even...

Gromit

Tories at war over Europe

Division within the Conserative Party over Europe were the downfall of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. We are set for a mini rebellion over the referendum vote with many Conservatives voting...

anotheoldgit

Do you consider this barbaric?

http://www.dailymail....body-meat-locker.html These are the type of people we have spent approx. £1.75b on, and now stage one is over perhaps a few million more in the future. Was it worth it...

Khandro

Greek debt

On December 31st 2006, the UK paid the final instalment of £45.5 million to the USA, thus discharging the last of its Word War II loans, some 50 years after contracting them. Why should the...

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