Sunday, 14 August 2011

PETER HITCHENS:


Police water cannon and plastic bullets?


After 50 years of the most lavish welfare state on earth?


What an abject failure


Faced with reality: Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally

Bitter laughter is my main response to the events of the past week. I have been


saying for years that it was coming, why it was and what could be done to stop it.






Fury over taxpayer gold card cover-up:


Ministers blame head of the Civil Service for blocking exposure of abuse


Sir Gus O'Donnell is in a battle with politicians

Ministers are locked in an extraordinary power battle with Cabinet Secretary


Sir Gus O'Donnell over the scandal of taxpayer-funded credit cards.







Row as drug companies lavish free oversees trips and sports tickets


on NHS bosses


Nice work if you can get it: Conferences were organised at luxury spa resorts in exotic locations, such as Mauritius in the Indian Ocean

Senior NHS staff have sparked a row over conflict of interest by accepting


lavish freebies from drug companies and other firms bidding for contracts






George Soros the billionaire didn't even give me a birthday gift for three years, so I'm suing, says his ex-lover


Adriana Ferreyr plans to sue her ex George Soros