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We have become a nation of shysters

14th October 2009 Ross Clark

Power cuts and uncollected rubbish form most people’s memories of the economic debacle that was the 1970s. But for me, a quite different story sums up the lack of business…

The green grass isn’t at home

6th October 2009 Ross Clark

Anyone ready yet to dip a proverbial toe into the bombed-out debris of the global property market? To adapt the old investment adage ‘buy on the sound of gunfire’, surely…

There’s never been a better time to join Labour

10th June 2009 Ross Clark

Labour had a good night on Sunday. Not Gordon Brown, not Ed Balls, not the Milibands, nor any other of the other ministers who will have been bundled out of…

The only tax-cutting Tory in town

22nd April 2009 Ross Clark

It is hard to remember the horrors of the London inherited by new Mayor Boris Johnson a year ago. It was a city gridlocked with traffic, with unaffordable housing, and…

Is property the new cash? Don’t be absurd

8th April 2009 Ross Clark

A forest of ‘For Sale’ boards is the usual means by which newspapers depict bad news in the property market. But in many places, the ‘To Let’ boards are rapidly…

The G20 summit is lousy value for money. Cancel it

18th March 2009 Ross Clark

It is difficult to look at the photographs of the world’s finance ministers, bank chiefs and assorted hangers-on assembled at a hotel in West Sussex last weekend without thinking of…

You’d be bonkers to buy abroad. Here’s why

13th March 2009 Ross Clark

The advert, in a Sunday newspaper, couldn’t have presented a happier scene: a smiling couple, looking as if they were about to go dancing off into the sunset. It looked…

Want a big bonus? Get yourself a public sector job

18th February 2009 Ross Clark

Imagine for a moment that you are a banker in one of the bailed-out banks. You have seen a few of your colleagues disappear into the lift with a bin…

Insolvency

11th February 2009 Ross Clark

The Insolvency Service has sent me a questionnaire seeking my views on bankruptcy. At first, I was enthused by this chance to say what I think about Gordon Brown’s reforms…

Whatever happened to the housing shortage?

10th February 2009 Ross Clark

The village of Kibworth Harcourt in Leicestershire is an unremarkable place, except that it could reasonably claim to be the front line of Britain’s ailing housing market. Three years ago,…