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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron announces cuts in ministerial salaries, ministerial cars and MPs’ perks, on a day when the Chancellor is giving a less eye-catching speech on public spending.
Like a Greek Oracle, Mervyn King has divined some encouraging signs at the quarterly Bank of England assessment of the UK economy. But the bulk of the statistical soothsaying was pretty bleak. The banking system is still in a bad way and it may take some years for it to be “weaned off very large…
Jon Snow
We are about to see Obama’s mettle tested domestically in America. I’m in the States this week and very struck by how his first international foray has gone down here. To some extent its supposed success has been taken for granted. There have been comparisons with Reagan in that the office of the US president…