In these difficult days, the massive loss of financial wealth by the rich probably won’t be a worry to them. They have enough already. To those who have little savings or assets to sell, the loss of an assured income through job redundancy, the depressing constant rejection of job application...

The upcoming budget will do more harm than good. With unemployment rising and work hours falling, the Government has to open the economic shutters, not close them. Modern debt-based economies are wholly debt driven. Without vast increases in debt from year to year the economy must go into recess...

In the 1920s, Social Credit founder C. H. Douglas proposed that what is physically possible and desirable ought to be financially possible. Yet here we are in 2009 with people being laid off work, plant underused and stockpiles of unsold goods piling up. There is no physical reason for this.

Anne Tolley’s removal of the ban on schools selling junk food is plainly an ideological political statement, because there’s no sense in it. If you want to change behaviour you don’t send mixed messages.