BY ALEX STORY After an eleven-day interlude from the Queen’s passing to her funeral on the 19th of September 2022, the media hounds have once again been unleashed. For Conservative Members of Parliament who really believed that the media storm would die away after Boris’s clinical removal, it must have been a wake-up call. That this was on the cards must have been obvious early … Continue reading Special Interest & Their Hounds
BY STEWART SLATER We are in a crisis. We know this because it is being screamed from the front pages of every newspaper. The television news is full of panels of talking heads, gravely giving us their opinions. The IMF has issued a strongly worded statement. The Opposition wants Parliament recalled. And yet, at the time of writing (massive hostage to fortune here) the pound … Continue reading Crisis? What Crisis?
BY JAMES FAULKNER This is the first Tory government since Thatcher – but is it too late? The “KamiKwasi” budget is how an apoplectic media establishment is framing Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng’s so-called “fiscal event”. Prime Minister Liz Truss’s new finance minister aimed to shock and awe the markets – and he certainly did. Sterling tumbled to an all-time low against the almighty … Continue reading Divine Wind?
