Ahead of today’s budget, MSP’s on the Finance Committee were advised by ‘experts’ speaking to them in Holyrood: I thought I should take a look at who these experts were.

Colin Mair, chief executive of the private company limited by

We have a feral underclass. It is a statement many bloggers make daily – but we do not think too deeply about it. We don’t go out in the morning, leave food out for the cat, drop our kids off at child care –

What a prize pair of tits we have on display this morning. The Duchess of Cambridge for engaging in the ‘oh so fashionable’ mindset of “I have every right to behave as I want, where I want, when I want, how I

My regular readers will be well aware that I am a Scouse. Born, bred and married in that peculiar sub-culture of Liverpool known as either ‘bitterly deprived’, by the legion of North London champagne socialist journalists who pontificate on these

The Green Party conference in Bristol is turning into the gift that keeps on giving.

On Friday we heard that the Party of just ONE MP (fielded 300 candidates, just one elected) was the new opposition. All one of them. The entire Labour

Sir Tony Baldry hasn’t had a good day. First he got a parking ticket when he just popped into Poundland, as your average penny saving MP does.

Then he bent down to retrieve the parking ticket whilst starting his car up. Whoops! Car lurches

With exquisite timing, David Cameron has found a way to boost the economy. Whew! Just when we thought he was bereft of ideas.

As from today, you can build a bigger conservatory on your house. The

Several days ago I was sent a press release advertising the iTunes festival which started 1st September in London and invited to write a blog post about it – I didn’t, I can’t find the time to write

Which is in itself a thought provoking question. Or is it the Crown Prosecution Service, which decides upon charges to be brought, which is determined to be the catalyst for unrest?

We have here two incidents, both

We need one of those endles adverts – the ‘just two pounds a week would save’ variety. In this case ‘just two pounds a week to the Treasury would cut the debt mountain more effectively than the coalition’

A Parisian friend sent me this picture of a little cottage on the French coast that they were thinking of purchasing as a holiday cottage. They wanted Mr G to look at it and tell them whether

I was struck this morning by the similarities between Ian Brady and Julian Assange – the individuals, not their crimes.

You cannot compare the cruelty and callousness of Brady’s child murders with Assange’s alleged offences, though if you throw in

“What matters now is justice takes its course” says The Sun this morning in respect of the Tia Sharp case.  Strange that – they are not always so keen on waiting for justice to ‘take its

In the caring, sharing newsroom of The Sun, they know what sells newspapers. And what sells newspapers keeps the advertisers happy. And keeping the advertisers happy keeps your job for another month.

So they dispense with

The best part of 100 years ago, my Father discovered that there was a window you could climb through at the back of the Liverpool Institute. Once through the window, you could wander the corridors and enter