In Brief

If they are really concerned about future shortages of doctors, teachers and engineers, wouldn’t they be paying youngsters to learn those specialisms?

This is turning out to be one of those occasions when the satirists are closer to the truth than the professional pundits

While the establishment media attempted to polish the economic data, anyone looking for a ray of good news in the details would have quickly realised that there was none.

Over the past few decades, the BBC has undergone the same collapse in journalistic standards which afflicts the legacy media in general.

To be clear, banks are not cutting rates to ease their borrowers’ pain.

The 'Big Take' is at an end, the 'Big Shrink' is just beginning

If this was happening in isolation, we might talk about solutions. But the UK is entering an everything death spiral from which there is no coming back.

Only by reading between the lines do we get a glimpse of what is actually happening.

Most of what we are fed as “news” is merely a re-hashing of corporate press releases designed to put a positive spin on the corporations behind them.

Over the next six months, more than a million mortgages which were fixed when the interest rate was at 0.1 percent, will flip over to a standard variable rate of more than 6 percent...