Tax Credits: Impact on the Family
By Kasredin: The Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi has recommended that the government should restrict child tax credits and child benefits to only the first two children in each household. This is not yet government policy, and the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to give it their wholehearted support, but the public reaction in the comments section of at least one national newspaper is very strongly in favour. The coalition government is in trouble. As I have…
On the Strange Madness of Conservatives
By Frederick Dixon: Demographic change in the West is having a curious effect on some politicians and commentators who would no doubt think of themselves as conservative. “Curious” because it has driven them mad. Obama’s easy victory in last year’s American presidential election was not due to the success of his government, presiding as it did over the sub-prime crisis and the resulting economic near-collapse; by any normal standards Obama should have been a one-term…