Rachel Reeves has announced a £3.25bn transformation fund to supposedly bring down the costs of government. This is likely to be as ineffective as the Office for Value for Money and just more waste, says David Craig.
Ofcom has been hounding GB News for its 'bias' in not being uniformly Left-wing. David Craig wonders when the brave regulator will notice that Times Radio pours forth anti-Trump bile all day long and takes action there.
Since 1939 the number of admirals in the Royal Navy has shot up more than four-fold relative to the number of sailors. What do these highly-paid senior officers do all day, asks David Craig. It's more public sector waste.
Is the NFU really worth £36 million of farmers' money each year? David Craig says his experience of trying to get in contact suggests this bloated organisation needs a strong dose of the DOGE treatment.
David Craig has some more CV questions for Rachel Reeves. Including: was her meteoric rise to Chancellor via the HBOS complaints department due to getting an undisclosed leg-up or two from her Labour connections?
What's the real reason behind the 'Farmer Harmer' Tax, asks David Craig. Could it have anything to do with the current rush among the rich and among financial institutions to buy up farmland?
Get ready for four years of foam-flecked anti-Trump sneering and fury from the British media, predicts David Craig. The more successful Trump is at growing the U.S. economy, the more unhinged it will be.
David Craig casts a critical eye over Rachel Reeves's career, suggesting that her exits from the Bank of England and HBOS may not have been entirely voluntary. Was she pushed, or did she jump?
Simplistic linear thinking by Rachel from Accounts and the Treasury spawned this Budget from hell, says David Craig. A systems thinker would have known it would send the economy into a doom loop of recession and decline.
What exactly is the point of Private Eye? On the biggest stories of our time – the 'climate crisis', Covid origins, mRNA vaccines – it has taken an unswervingly establishment line, says David Craig. Is the BBC to blame?
With Net Zero, with Covid vaccines and in countless other instances the instinct of politicians and bureaucrats is always to double-down and cover-up when a radical course correction is needed, says David Craig.
A criminal investigation has been launched into who passed the CCTV footage of the Manchester Airport attack on police to the Manchester Evening News while the attackers themselves remain uncharged.
