Posted by Chris Lowe on 31 March 2011
The Institute of Economic Affairs has today published a very interesting report on the need to reform Britains’s ”irrational gambling laws”. It highlights, for example, that although laws have been slightly relaxed to allow poker to be played in pubs, the maximum stake is £5 in a 24-hour period. We did predict some time ago, that the [...]
Posted by admin on 28 March 2011
The electoral success of Germany’s Green Party in Baden-Wuerttemberg’s regional elections on the weekend has been widely reported and analysed in the British press and political blogs – and newsworthy it is indeed. After a 58-year rule in Baden-Wuerttemberg, the Christian Democrats will be forced to watch how the quintessentially Conservative state will embark on [...]
Posted by Chris Lowe on 23 March 2011
This was always going to be a budget with few headlines. Coming only five months after the CSR, it would have been extraordinary if there had been any serious deviations from the path to recovery that the Chancellor set out in October. So much of the speech stressed rather small changes: changes to gift aid; [...]