I am a bit of a lefty on some issues..

The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the….

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also beli….

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as bank….

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Ha….

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manne….

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years..

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those w….

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means kee….

These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories ….

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse..

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treache….

My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find ch….

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am..

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegrap….

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal..

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-grow….

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity tha….

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in th….

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean..

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want….