Recent articles by Richard Ehrman

Public sector pension strike

Public sector shake-up: pensions are only the start

Wed 6 Jul, AT 10:57 Richard Ehrman

Cameron’s pledge to end public service monopolies threatens bigger battle with the unions

European Central Bank ECB

Why the Greeks would be mad to leave the euro

Tue 28 Jun, AT 10:53 Richard Ehrman

Promising the minimum necessary to keep the loans flowing is Greece’s only real option

David Cameron at Queen's tennis

Why Cameron has little to fear from the Tory right

Tue 14 Jun, AT 13:11 Richard Ehrman

As long as he continues with deficit cuts and schools and welfare reforms - he’ll survive

Who needs a government? Belgium does nicely without

Tue 7 Jun, AT 08:26 Richard Ehrman

Highly devolved Belgium breaks record for functioning without a central government

George Osborne

Economy: no panic yet but the growth isn’t coming

Tue 31 May, AT 08:18 Richard Ehrman

Chancellor Osborne’s plan A has hit a snag - and we all know there's no plan B

Twitter, justice, High Court

Injunctions break every rule of good law-making

Wed 25 May, AT 10:11 Richard Ehrman

Judges have created unworkable privacy law - Cameron has reason to be cross

Gherkin; City of London

If the Swiss are chucking out non-doms, should we?

Wed 11 May, AT 13:48 Richard Ehrman

Richard Ehrman: No other major western country gives the footloose super-rich such an unquestioning welcome

Egyptians protest in Tahrir Square

Osama’s brand of Islamism was already history

Wed 4 May, AT 10:10 Richard Ehrman

Osama had no interest in democracy and the protesters in Cairo and Tunis had no interest in him

judge

Newspapers have no claim to the moral high ground

Wed 27 Apr, AT 10:56 Richard Ehrman

The super-injunctions debate: money rather than high principle is at stake here

Angela Merkel

Germany’s power is a threat to the Eurozone

Tue 19 Apr, AT 16:08 Richard Ehrman

Under rigid euro rules, how long before Greece, Ireland or Portugal say enough is enough?

Bob Diamond

Obstinate banks are the trade unions of today

Tue 12 Apr, AT 10:16 Richard Ehrman

ICB report will do little to heal the widening rift between banks and society

Nick Clegg David Cameron

Nick Clegg has not given up taxing expensive homes

Wed 30 Mar, AT 08:16 Richard Ehrman

Richard Ehrman: Lib Dem leader risks pushing Tories into same quagmire that swallowed Thatcher

George Osborne Budget 2011

Budget is coalition’s most Conservative move so far

Thu 24 Mar, AT 09:08 Richard Ehrman

Chancellor showed his political mettle and delivered his message with populist zeal

Nick Clegg

AV referendum could embarrass David Cameron

Wed 16 Mar, AT 10:52 Richard Ehrman

Cameron could lose either way, writes Richard Ehrman in his first new weekly column for The First Post

George Osborne

Pain for Osborne, relief for Balls as GDP shocks us all

Tue 25 Jan, AT 12:55 Richard Ehrman

Bad news for the Chancellor, says Richard Ehrman. Ed Balls could prove to have been right all along

Chelsea pensioners

Forget climate change, ageing populations are the real problem

Wed 8 Jul, AT 18:33 Richard Ehrman

Old man Europe must find a way to keep up with the younger populations of Asia, Africa & America

How we can get back Fred Goodwin’s RBS pension

Fri 6 Mar, AT 13:46 Richard Ehrman

The simplest way to deprive Sir Fred Goodwin of his undeserved £700,000-a-year pension is to tax it back at the next Budget

Financial crisis? What crisis?

Fri 12 Dec, AT 00:00 Richard Ehrman

The Pre Budget Report was a purely political exercise

Mon 24 Nov, AT 17:44 Richard Ehrman

Given the current economic conditions, the Chancellor’s 2.5 per cent cut in VAT was like spitting into the wind

The Bank of England’s desperate bid for relevance

Thu 6 Nov, AT 16:02 Richard Ehrman

The Bank of England’s whopping rate cut is an attempt to regain the initiative after missing the onset of the recession

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