Inspectors On The Non-Job
Labour's huge and incompetent government inspectorates are worse than a waste of money - they are downright dangerous. Take today's scandal:"Poor standards of care at an accident and emergency unit in one of the country's flagship hospitals may hav

Keep Right On To The - To The - To The
A very scratched recordRegular readers may recall the paper we wrote last year for the TaxPayers' Alliance calling for the abolition of the Barnett Formula (see here and here). We argued that Scotland should be granted full fiscal autonomy, with responsibility for raising its own tax revenues. Since then we've had a weighty report from the Calman Commissi

How Many People Work For The Government?
How many people work for the government? According to the Major, the answer is none. Personally, I think that's a tad harsh. But prompted by a comment on a recent BOM post, we've taken another look at how many are employed by the government.We start with the official count published by the Off

Climategate
Warmism is not our specialist subject, but we really can't let the scandal of Climategate pass without comment. As you will know, emails and other material "liberated" from the publicly funded Climatic Research

Yes We Can
Do we really need to go through all that again?Tyler has lost count of the times he's heard supposedly well informed people say something like "no government has ever succeeded in cutting public expenditure" (eg see here). Of course, it's completely unt