What can Darling do about the £650k pa outrage? The big talking point on many of the radio phone-ins today has been the mammoth pension of £650,000 a year that the ex-RBS boss is due to get for the rest of his life. Listen in – there’s a lot of anger and fury out there and who can blame people. This comes on the day that the Royal Bank of Scotland posted a £24bn loss – the biggest in British…
How’s this going to play ahead of the election? The real danger of Jack Straw’s announcement that he’s using his veto to stop cabinet minutes on the Iraq war decision being made available under the Freedom of Information Act is that it could open up the whole episode as a political issue once again. Even though it’s nearly six years since it all happened Ministers have managed to fend off calls for an inquiry into the issue, which was so…
..and congratulations to Roger on his Oscar performance Once again the long-standing PB contributor, Roger, produced a near perfect set of predictions on the Oscar winners and those who followed his tips made themselves a bit of money. This followed a similar record in 2008. This is getting to become a habit. The challenge this year was that there was so little value in the betting. But as is always said a winning odds-on bet is worth a whole lot…
This is the second cartoon of the day from our cartoonist, Marf. More of her work can be found at LondonSketchbook.com.
PB’s cartoonist is Marf of LondonSketchbook.com.
PB’s cartoonist is Marf of LondonSketchbook.com.
Does Brown need to be more careful at PMQs? There’s been a big spin operation going on from Number 10 this afternoon to “make clear” that when Brown said he thought the world was “in a depression” it was, as they say, a “slip of the tongue.” Not good particularly as it’s only a few weeks ago that his last big “slip of the tongue” led to the hiatus over him saying he was the “saviour of the world“. The…
PB’s cartoonist is Marf of LondonSketchbook.com.