Interesting morning. On the face of it little of Sir Kevin Tebbit’s evidence was new. We had already heard from a bevy of defence secretaries and the Treasury’s top civil servant about the Whitehall turf-war in 2003 that led to huge MoD expenditure cuts. What were damning today were the language and the...
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Archive for February 3rd, 2010
Iraq inquiry: Sir Kevin’s choice of words cuts through
IFS budget: don’t cut now, but cut larger, later
One economics buff colleague of mine suggested a few years back that the country be run by a committee of benevolent economists with the then head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies , Andrew Dilnot, somewhere high up in Cabinet. I pondered this while the IFS revealed perhaps the most important non-party document...
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The Big Picture photography competition: round 88
This week's best entries in our travel photography competition.
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Iraq inquiry: has an industry been born?
“What on earth are you going to do,” Sir Roderic boomed at a member of the Chilcot support team this morning, “now this is nearly over?” “Not sure,” came the reply, “I was thinking maybe the Afghanistan inquiry?” Which would perhaps have been funnier had John, sorry, Dr Reid not gone on to...
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Canada: Driving the world’s longest road through the rugged wild west
From today's Daily Mail: Covering 1,178 miles, Canada's Yonge Street is challenging but for anyone looking for the ultimate road trip it is a simply unbeatable journey.
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