economics

I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I criticised Labour, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting for their comments on GPs and their financing
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A couple of days ago Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, attacked GPs, saying their finances are murky, in the process obviously seeking to blame
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One of the first budgets I covered as a journalist spelt the end of the career of the man who delivered it. John Dawkins, who had been finance minister in the formidable first Hawke cabinet of 1983, had finally achieved his ambition of taking the treasury portfolio after Paul Keating […]

When Bob Hawke died in 2019, two days before the federal election, many mainstream commentators took the opportunity to remind the prime ministerial hopefuls that in terms of charisma, persuasiveness and popularity they didn’t exactly measure up to the example of the Silver Bodgie.

In How to Rule Your Own Country, Harry Hobbs and George Williams consider the phenomenon of micronations, which is to say territorial entities whose members claim independence or sovereignty but which lack diplomatic recognition.