I WAS asked to talk to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 this week. We had spoken the week before about Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement so I was a little surprised to be back on air again quite so soon.
JEREMY Hunt’s UK Autumn Statement, delivered in Westminster yesterday, was a disaster.
WHEN I was quite young (it was a while ago) I was told we lived in a red and blue world. Politics was a simple choice between rosettes of those colours.
LIVING with uncertainty is a fact of life. We all have to do it, all the time. By large, we manage. That’s because for most of us, most of the time, there is sufficient WORD that we can rely on to accept the risk that some things are bound to go wrong.
THERE are many reasons to be concerned about the evidence that is now being heard by the Covid inquiry in London. That is precisely why I want to concentrate on just one note that was presented this week.
I cannot be alone in finding the news very hard to watch at the moment.
AS some readers will know, I was on BBC Scotland’s Debate Night programme last night. You can view it here, assuming you have a TV licence.
It is time to talk about inheritance tax, because it seems as if everyone else is.
RISHI Sunak was forced into making a speech yesterday because its content had already been leaked ...
I HAVE always taken a keen interest in the rights of pensioners. But I have to admit that the fact that I will become an old-age pensioner next March, and therefore qualify for my state pension, has given me a new focus on this issue. I have as a result, watched the manoeuvrings of both the Tories and Labour with regard to the pension triple lock with a combination of both disbelief and despair.
