Social security spending on pensioners has risen by £10 billion over this Parliament. It’s declined by £2 billion for non-pensioners.
Even with the economy on the up, approval ratings have remained stubbornly low.
It’s just a shame that we don’t really have one.
Public spending on health has risen by 344 per cent over the past 30 years. Is it time to look for money from elsewhere?
Yesterday’s employment figures confirmed a new balance in our labour market.
Major’s success was the polling companies’ failure. This time, Cameron must deliver more.
Departments cut their resource budgets faster than originally planned, and have had bigger capital budgets. Politics is part of the reason why.
Total departmental spending has declined by about 13 per cent. But in some departments it’s been cut by much more.
If the opinion polls are anything to go by, their share of the Scottish vote will descend to a record low. The SNP’s will hit an all-time high.
In the Seventies, almost half of all people smoked. Nowadays, it’s less than one-in-five – but the smoking ban didn’t make much of a difference.
The economy’s doing well, but productivity levels are still to recover from the recession. Should we care?
The proportion of 17 to 20-year-olds with a full driving licence has declined by 13 percentage points since the mid-Nineties. This could undo politicians’ blueprints for the future.
Our democracy is manufacturing its own ghosts at the banquet.
It’s not only lower than it used to be, but it’s declined faster than turnout among other age groups. Which prompts a question: whose politics is this?
With Brent crude trading at below $50 a barrel, the former SNP leader’s promises are now sunk at the bottom of the North Sea.