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P.D. Crofts - Moments Before The Crash



 
Editorial

Taxpaying jiggery-pokery

Monday 19 December 2011

The Commons public accounts committee report into relationships between big business and senior HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officials recalls the scandal surrounding MPs' expense claims.

Part of the problem

Sunday 18 December 2011

Failed Scottish Labour leadership hopeful Tom Harris's description of his party's membership as "backward" and incapable of necessary radical change brings to mind Bertolt Brecht's lines In Praise of Communism.

Simply not good enough

Friday 16 December 2011

On one level, the result of the Feltham and Heston by-election is quite a relief, indicating that David Cameron's concerned Tory act isn't playing very well with the voters.

Another war lost by Obama

Thursday 15 December 2011

At least Barack Obama did not use his predecessor's inane Mission Accomplished backdrop to accompany his Welcome Home speech to US troops returning from Iraq.

Yet another Tory failure

Wednesday 14 December 2011

There's one thing that you can always rely on with Tories and it's that their policies will always hit hardest those who can least afford it.

A poor response from Miliband

Tuesday 13 December 2011

If there was a fly on the wall at today's Cabinet meeting, it will have left with its ears buzzing.

Denials of democracy

Monday 12 December 2011

Tory Eurosceptics are euphoric, Nick Clegg is first relaxed and then apoplectic while Labour is against what David Cameron has done but is unsure what he should have done.

Green meanies saved nothing

Sunday 11 December 2011

Headlines proclaiming that the climate talks in Durban have been "saved" by a last-minute deal are highly misleading.

The gloves are coming off

Friday 09 December 2011

There's a huge feeling of guilt and confusion when a leader writer in the Morning Star feels even a momentary twinge of fellow feeling with chief speculators' stooge David Cameron.

Prising off the death grip

Thursday 08 December 2011

Of all the jobs available in this country, being a trade union official in a public-sector union must be among the most frustrating and irritating.