Fraser Nelson 2:18pm
Brown's Bubble: these two words should come to sum up the last seven years of British economy. Today, George Osborne used the phrase. But it should become more than a soundbite, it should be a forceful and coherent analysis explaining how and why the economy has got to this point. That the "prosperity" of the Brown years was not real, but an avalanche of funny money, borrowed against made-up house prices. The pain Britain feels now is that of a bubble bursting.
My brief analysis: Brown kept to Tory spending plans at...
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Peter Hoskin 12:58pm
Dominic Grieve has kindly agreed to a Q&A session with Coffee House.
So, post your questions for him in the comments section below. And, in a week-or-so's time, we'll pick out the best ten and put them to the shadow home secretary.
He'll get back to us all a few days later. And the commenters whose questions are chosen will all win Coffee House t-shirts and copies of the special 180th Anniversary issue of The Spectator.
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Brian Cullen 12:46pm
Some of the responses to Russia’s actions in the past two weeks have been slightly panicked, and focused strictly on geo-politics. But the key to the situation is Russia’s economic position - not any ambitions to kick off a new cold (or hot) war.
We shouldn’t be surprised that supposedly resurgent Russian ‘imperialism’ has dealt its first blow in energy-rich central Asia. Russia’s actions are a result of its needs as a petro-economy. Its economic weaknesses led to this attack – not a desire to take over the world. As The Economist...
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Peter Hoskin 10:55am
The latest economic growth statistics - which show that growth in the second quarter of 2008 stood at a less-than-impressive 0 percent - deny Brown one of his proudest boasts; that the UK economy's enjoyed "63 quarters of successive growth". Annual growth remains positive at 1.4 percent, though, so I expect he'll replace it with something like "Year-on-year, this country's enjoyed continuous growth under New Labour." That is if he's still using the New Labour epithet.
But quite aside from constraining our Prime Minister at the dispatch box, the figures are worrying in themselves. Now...
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Daniel Korski 10:50am
So Britain's soldiers, risking life and limb, fighting in the treacherous Hindu Kush, defending our freedoms and the safety of ordinary Afghans are like our Olympics athletes? Heh? That's what the Prime Minister seems to think. On his visit to Helmand, Gordon Brown said that British soldiers "have showed exactly the same courage, professionalism and dedication" as the British Olympians.
Sure, the achievements and medals of Britain's Olympians should be celebrated. But it is absurd, insulting and inappropriate to compare their courage, professionalism and dedication to that of our men and women fighting...
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