Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 2 – 8, 2009) “Down, down, deeper and down”. So goes the chorus of a Status Quo song, but it is eerily starting to sound like the stock markets’ anthem. Another week and another plunge of equities on fears about the int...

Summertime and the living was easy And is there honey still for tea? And proceeds of growth yet to share? Come to that, just remind me what growth actually is. The long Edwardian summer of easy options has blown away, and we are now accumulating war debt at an historic and terrifying rate. Unless so...

Gordo campaigning in Crewe and Nantwich BOM correspondents have been keeping an eye on things, and draw attention to the following: No proper business case for ID Cards Scheme "The government has, for the first time, admitted publicly that it cannot justify its controversial £5.4bn National Identit...

After you with that sick bag Essex County Council's £1.5m plan to make its Council Tax payers prop up 15 local post offices is merely the latest twist in a long and dismal saga of public sector buck-passing. The Essex post offices are among 2,500 unprofitable branches (from over 14,000) earmarked f...