Blog posts tagged "George Osborne"

July 27, 2011 8:04 am 41 Comments

Beyond your immediate work colleagues, your immediate family and or lovers, can you think of anyone you might have seen 26 times... or even 16 times in the past year? Jon Snow blogs.

October 19, 2010 8:10 am 25 Comments

Strange - in former times, budgetary announcements and the rest used to have to be kept secret until they were announced on the floor of the House of Commons. But today vast amounts of the Strategic Defence and the Public Spending Reviews are already out in the public domain.

October 18, 2010 7:58 am 47 Comments

I met up with a friend over the weekend who has been offered an endowed Professorship at one the UK’s "Great Universities". He’s a scientist and the post is at the top of his particular proclivity. He is 80 per cent certain of rejecting the Chair and is presently on track to leave Britain for an emerging Asian University, where he has been offered a higher salary.

July 8, 2010 9:31 am 42 Comments

The Celtic Tiger of Ireland's boom years is worse than on its knees. Is this a lesson for the UK?

February 23, 2010 9:01 am 22 Comments

Has politics been turned on its head, with Labour now the party of "big business", blogs Jon Snow.