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If you don't think that Farage, Carswell and Reckless are opportunists just like Clegg, Cameron, Milliband and the rest then I think that you are in for a surprise. They might believe some basic tenet(s) of the party that they are a member of but far more of their drive is career progress, IMHO.

ALL parties lie and deceive. Surely the point with UKIP is just that they are lying and deceiving in accordance with the views of a large swathe of the population. It's just like the Tories and their 'welfare' agenda. Most parties have their own particular issue that they want to push, and they...

I'm sure plenty of others with far more in-depth knowledge will have their say, but on the face of it to me it looks like a result for publicans. No wonder the Pub Cos are upset, but with most squeezing the pips, and a few liquidators allowed to masquerade as Pub Cos, it's hardly surprising that...

It's on Amazon Prime Video (formerly known as Lovefilm). Not sure if you can still get one of the old-school Lovefilm subscriptions (which we still have) but if not then you need to pay £79 a year to Amazon to be a Prime member - you get free one-day shipping plus the streaming film/TV stuff...

Thanks for the heads up, not seen this. Now set up an account (took all of 5 minutes). The only slightly sore point being that the minimum trigger value for auto top-up is £10, which given that I use the crossing no more than 4 times a year seems a bit steep! On the traffic flows, for me it's a...

Except that Rosler is a really bad example of the point that you're trying to prove - because he spent two and a half years of his playing career in the Championship (playing for Man City and West Brom) and managed successfully in League One. He's got much more in common with those British...

Doesn't look like it, no. But to be fair it's only one aspect of the immigration debate. Peston has written a pretty good article about it here.

I have a Mio Cyclo 315. Just don't buy one. There's a decent machine in there somewhere but they keep making an absolute mess of the software. The first software update meant that it wouldn't communicate with the cadence monitor. The next one fixed that but introduced random non-responsiveness...

My reading of that was that they want to ban 'exclusive' zero hour contracts, whereby the worker is not guaranteed any hours but not allowed to work for anyone else. These contracts could be viewed as an impediment to the operation of the 'free market', which would make it compatible with Tory...

Really good post. I agree with your sentiments. I don't think it's a problem (necessarily) of economic literacy; it's that professional economics lacks serious credibility - and I say that as a professional economist. It's far too reliant on ivory towers and manipulating data to agree with...

Sorry, what? This is the most right-wing Tory conference and manifesto since Cameron became leader. Low taxation and small government is not 'the middle ground'. Agree with those that say it was a great speech. He's clearly got Milliband's number, it'll be UKIPers they'll spend most of their...

£230k in 2012 for a 3-bed 1970s detached house in South Cambridgeshire. No idea how we'll ever move 'upwards' from here without some significant kind of financial windfall (and even then with a much larger mortgage).

Sounds like he did very well today. If he can stop too many voters defecting to UKIP I think he's got this one in the bag. For all of his faults he's much more convincing than Milliband (and Osbourne is more convincing than Balls, etc. etc.) and he knows it. Expect to see more and more policy...

This is something that MSE and their ilk have been drawing more attention to recently. You have retained your no claims bonus (6 years or whatever) but this affects the discount that you get on the standard price. The standard price is determined by your likelihood of accident, which is...

If these are genuine quotes from John Redwood then I find it absolutely staggering... Businesses that speak out for Britain's EU membership will be punished

It is saying something that this openly elistist (in politicians and policy) Conservative party, who have missed every single revenue target going, while pursuing (compared to the last 15 years) brutal austerity, are still in with a decent chance at the next election. These conferences have...

I've heard in the past (no idea if it's true) that our high population density add significant investment costs (land is more expensive, it is difficult/expensive to close infrastructure for redevelopment because it is so heavily used). Government investment in the UK has declined under the...

That chart is government investment though, not business investment. So it should be covering things like infrastructure (roads, trains, energy) and property (council houses, offices, etc.) rather than machinery and equipment for the private sector.

Sorry, O/T, but how are you planning to get one? As I understand it those available on Amazon are Chinese, and can access limited European bandwidth (so only certain networks), and the manufacturers look likely to persist with the 'invitation-only' method of distribution for a while yet.

The point is that the Tories (who aren't keen on the policy) have done nothing to encourage uptake, so rollout of the measures has been extremely slow. It's a very good (and cheap) policy, if you can get the delivery mechanism right. Caroline Flint talked about involving local authorities in the...