Most of the time, George Osborne, has the least enjoyable job in Britain. He’s got to squeeze taxpayers for more money, cut jobs and wages in the public sector, slash benefits… and his only reward will be that in five years time his government might not be bankrupt. The more rigorously he does his job, [...]

It is an extraordinary but true fact that democracy is on the retreat across the ‘free’ world. Italy has a government boasting not one single elected official. The current regime was foisted on the Italian people not by national election but by the will of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy. In Greece, the same thing, [...]