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Why are we giving India £1 billion in aid if it can afford Moon missions?

May we have our money back, please? Specifically, the £1 billion we donate in aid to India, a country rich enough to enter the space race. What on earth are we doing, pouring UK taxpayers' money into the maw of a nation that can afford to send rockets to the Moon?

Last January, Gordon Brown a...

Gordon Brown is right: his recklessness must be punished

Gordon Brown, writing in The Times, says: "I am angry at irresponsible behaviour. Where there is excessive and irresponsible risk-taking at has got to be punished."What, and whom, can he have in mind? The town hall treasurers who invested council taxpayers' money in dodgy high interest Icelandic ...

Financial crisis: Hank Paulson's careless talk is bad for your wealth

Gordon Brown says he is "angry at irresponsible behaviour" so I hope he's angry at Hank Paulson, America's Treasury Secretary who added to the hysteria this week by talking down the market.Hank Paulson would be advised to keep quiet

In a speech on Wednesday, Mr Paul... ...

Financial crisis: will Gordon Brown reap the rewards?

It's a risky prediction as I could be proven wrong very quickly but I suspect the next batch of opinion polls will show a further narrowing of the gap between Labour and the Conservatives. No one is thinking about politics right now - as I write the stock market is down more than 8 per cent - but...

Gordon Brown should hang his head at this Icelander's words

I defy anyone to read Runar's contribution to my recent post on Iceland without being moved. Runar introduces himself as an Icelandic fisherman who, last year, saved up enough to attend university in Denmark. Now he finds that his savings have been wiped out and that Danes won't accept Icelandic ...