The government clearly does need people to focus attention away from them, writes Mark Borkowski. If they can, in some way, have a witch-hunt, not just on Fred Goodwin but other members of the banking community who are also sitting on pretty hefty pensions, that clearly helps. We all want a scapegoat. Unfortunately, scapegoats turn…
Pressure on Sir Fred Goodwin to surrender a substantial proportion of his £693,000 annual pension intensified yesterday when Labour’s deputy leader signalled that the government was prepared to change the law to recover the cash. Harriet Harman said the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive had received “money for nothing” when he quit the…
Where have all the rebellious heroes of British music gone? If the Brit Awards are anything to go by, there is pretty much no such animal anymore, just a parade of no-marks who are too wary of upsetting Mastercard, the sponsors, and the TV executives to do anything interesting. The fact that the inoffensive Welsh…