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Why savers should forgive the Bank of England
Charlie Bean points out that those complaining about the impact of QE on their annuity rates overlook the fact that QE also boosts the size of their pension pots.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, Econoblog | Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 4:22 pm
Germany: Crisis what crisis?
Germany does not share the economic pain of the likes of Greece and Spain and thus does not feel the urgency of the situation.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, Econoblog | Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 1:57 pm
Reform lost in “holistic partnership”
Further to my comment yesterday about pointless court hearings for defendants to say what their name is, I think I have established that the Government is getting rid of some of them, but not all.
Nick Herbert, the justice minister (pictured), has announced (but not on the Justice Department website) that some committal hearings are to [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 8:26 pm
Public sector inefficiency at its worst
Sometimes it takes a media circus to expose an absurdity. One such is surely the waste of the time and salaries of court officials and police of requiring defendants to appear in a magistrates’ court, confirm their names and addresses and be told that their case is being sent to a Crown court on a [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 20 February 2012 at 10:19 pm
The Scottish Question
I have written about David Cameron’s character in The Independent on Sunday today, prompted by our ComRes poll which asked respondents to say which of a set of 14 statements applied to him. Apart from being “out of touch with ordinary people” — not fatal but not great — little about him seemed to have made much [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 9:18 pm
Tesco: a good company and a responsible employer
I caused a breach in the left-right continuum yesterday by saying:
Tesco: a good company and responsible employer that sells things people want at prices they can afford.
I was condemned the length and breadth of Twitter and was asked to go on Radio 5 so that I could be condemned there too (unfortunately a boxing match [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 2:47 pm
Ed Balls on Greece, the Eurozone and tax cuts
Courtesy of Labour’s impressive news operation, a transcript of Ed Balls on Sunday AM this morning. Always worth listening to the Shadow Chancellor.
Andrew Marr: You were hostile to Britain joining the euro, what do you think should happen now with a country like Greece where they are absolutely up against it and really serious [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 11:23 am
Tories take first lead with ComRes since October 2010
Our ComRes opinion poll in tomorrow’s Independent on Sunday, shared with the Sunday Mirror, is the first from that company to show a Conservative lead since October 2010:
Conservatives 39% (+1)
Labour 38% (-)
Liberal Democrats 10% (-1)
Others 13% (-)
The changes since last month’s IoS/SM poll (published 22 January) are small, but this is confirmation that the Conservatives [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 7:29 pm
Did Hitler father a lovechild?
A big thank-you to the Daily Mail sub-editors for converting a Daily Telegraph story, which resolutely avoided asking a Question to Which the Answer is No, into Number 757 in the world-famous series.
The Mail was kind enough to supply additional evidence in the form of photographs (right) that show conclusively that Hitler and M Loret had [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 12:29 pm
Poll alert
We have a ComRes opinion poll in The Independent on Sunday tomorrow, shared with the Sunday Mirror. Our poll last month had Labour and the Conservatives tied on 38 per cent. The most recent ComRes poll, carried out by telephone rather than online, for The Independent on 1 February, found a 1-point Labour lead.
We also asked if [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 10:33 am
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