This Autumn Statement was well prescribed beforehand and doesn’t really tell us any more than we were already previously aware. Growth, spending and borrowing are pretty well as forecast and predicted. The over ambitious plan to produce a Budget surplus in 2020 has been discarded in favour of a small deficit and, frankly, should be welcomed. Continue reading →

It is evidently difficult to reconcile, or even justify, Donald Trump’s incendiary comments, puerile diction, mindless misogyny, homophobic remarks, bombastic and repugnant demeanour. However, whether you like him or not, his proposed policies of smaller government, less regulation, lower taxation, greater infrastructure spending, strategic and military pragmatism, are all laudable aspirations if, of course, you have a conservative bent. Continue reading →