Sunday, 24 June 2012

JUNE 22ND, 2012 6:30

House prices could fall by 11pc, predicts Coutts

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House prices could fall by 11pc, predicts Coutts – Her Majesty the Queen’s bank – as it turns bearish about the property market. While there are only two types of ‘expert’ when it comes to predicting house prices – those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know – Coutts’ analysis is… Read more



JUNE 21ST, 2012 21:42

An EU referendum is coming, but when and on what terms?

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An EU referendum is starting to look inevitable. As the great Finkelstein put it the other day: The question of whether there will be, or should be, a referendum on our continued membership and the terms of that membership is the hottest topic in politics. Too late. We’ve already made that decision. There will be… Read more




JUNE 21ST, 2012 18:18

Thanks to Michael Gove, we now have Tory differentiation

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Remember last year when differentiation was all the rage? Specifically Lib Dem differentiation, as they described their efforts to have their cake and eat it? Today we’ve had another example in what is turning out to be a pattern of Tory differentiation, with Michael Gove’s plan to bring back the O-level. The processologists among us… Read more




JUNE 21ST, 2012 17:48

The real history of British racism

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There was that wonderful Mitchell and Webb sketch a few years ago in which they play German officers on the Eastern Front, who suddenly turn to each other and ask: are we the baddies? It’s a question conservatives often ask of themselves, aware that in the popular media the baddies generally are conservative, and the… Read more