The wave of spending cuts announced yesterday and today amount to an effort to get some of the pain of Tuesday’s Budget in early. We should be under no illusions, though: this is the easy bit... more
Not many months ago we were all born-again disciples of John Maynard Keynes. A new New Deal was on the way in which public pounds spent on good works would wash around the aching bones of the economy like some magical spa treatment ... more
It's simple, to fund borrowing, let alone to reduce the deficit, there will have to be cuts in public spending, regardless of which party is in power... more
From its humble beginnings as a left-field music show for hippies looking for peace and love on a remote dairy farm, Glastonbury has established itself as one of the world's largest and best-loved festivals... more
A couple of years ago, it was pretty much guaranteed that from the fourth weekend of July through to the first week of September the City shut down... more
Cheaper petrol, mortgages and cars for Indians is the last thing the architects of last month's terrorist invasion of Mumbai would have had in mind... more
Things have to be just so if I am to write. It must be early morning and I must be in my dressing-gown - a dowdy, soft old thing of greenish-black or blackish green to which ten thousand dog hairs cling... more
On sunny days it’s one of the loveliest spaces in London but the lamentably slow and vague service makes The Orangery a let down, says David Sexton.... more
The First Emperor warriors are global ambassadors for the Beijing Olympics, but was it necessary to incorporate two display styles to sweeten Chinese-British relations?... more
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