I started boycotting Tesco’s in 2005 for selling the blasphemous Jerry Springer, the Opera DVD. Since then, they have continued to dismay and disgust the nation with just about everything from their immoral means of acquiring new property to selling pole dancing kits for young girls to its involvement with the Workfare programme:
This is the [...]

This sign is on Congressman Ron Paul’s desk.
It could be on any desk in any country.
My two dogs had minor operations today. Both are doing fine and have just eaten heartily. I don’t mind the vet’s bill, but 20% VAT on top? It seems rather callous of the Government to penalise us like this when [...]

According to the BBC’s Budget Calendar, I will be better off, thanks to George Osborne.
That’s the good news. It is only because my earnings have been quite a bit lower than usual that I will especially benefit from the increase in personal allowances.
I wonder if the Chancellor will be making the pilgrimage to the Bilderberg [...]

No, it’s not a gripe about the Tories increasing the overseas aid budget to help regimes like Pakistan’s that buys weapons of mass destruction (real ones) and puts people on death row for talking about Christ.
Today is the BBC’s annual attempt to get the land’s couch potatoes to phone up and donate money to “good [...]

In my last post I discussed just how awful the Lib Dems’ ideas are. I hadn’t heard of this one which the Telegraph has just warned about: Nick Clegg’s plans for VAT on new homes attacked.
The tax of between five and seven per cent would add up to £14,000 to the cost of buying an [...]

Just when you thought the State had already taken over parents’ roles completely…
Children as young as five will receive lessons on managing their piggy banks as a means of improving financial responsibility among the public.
From what I remember of my childhood, the whole savings thing involved the entire family. Receiving money, putting it in a [...]

A bizarre headline on LabourList yesterday read, “Only around 30% of households have savings – Labour has to stand up for the majority.”
It sounded like it might now be a crime to have savings, so I investigated further. It seems that some people are still financially independent and that even some of the middle classes [...]