For a greener Britain, we should build jails, not eco-towns
Hurrah – the anticipation is over and we now know the four "winners" of the Government's "eco-town" scheme – Rackheath in Norfolk; Whitehill Bordon in Hampshire; North West Bicester in Oxfordshire and...
View ArticleEd Miliband's bonfire of the banks is hippyish posturing
Ed Miliband is spending today with the Co-Op. The Co-Op are the Good Bankers; the Woodcraft Folk of banking community. No loud ties at the Co-Op. It’s all sandals and herbal tea. Actually, to be honest...
View ArticleWhy I won't be shopping at M&S any more…
Suppose an alliance of green activists and corporate fat cats were to write to the Chancellor with the following demands: "We the undersigned feel very strongly that British consumers should pay more...
View ArticleBritish banking is still not fixed
The Co-op bank is in a bit of bother. As Robert Peston points out, this is an early test for the Government's new regulatory set-up and the last thing the Chancellor, George Osborne, needs right now is...
View ArticleNon-predatory but non-profitable: are Labour still singing the praises of the...
The Labour Party is broke. According to Sam Coates in this morning’s Times, “Labour is facing a new financial crisis after it emerged that the party depends on a massive overdraft from the troubled...
View ArticleThe Co-op's surrender on lads' mags is a victory for the feminist Taliban
Right, that's it. I'm not shopping at the Co-op again. The bog-standard supermarket chain announced this morning that it has caved in to growing pressure from loony Left feminist campaigners and given...
View ArticleHow ethics flew the Co-op
From The Sunday Telegraph It is, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were told, "the greenest building ever". The home of the Co-operative Group in Manchester, which the monarch opened just 10 days ago, is...
View ArticleSorry, Ed Miliband, but the revelations about the Co-op aren't 'smears'....
Is this the best Labour's high command can do? So far, Ed Miliband's only response to the revelations about the ex-Co-op Bank chairman has been to accuse David Cameron of "smears". Yvette Cooper, whose...
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