You could raise a lot of money if you sold the future rights to tax North Sea oil for example. But no the Scots lead government of the anti-English Labour party instead plans to: 1) Sell the right to Tax the English for a crossing they have already more than paid for at Dartford. 2) Sell the English student loan book ( maybe some Welsh and Irish in there somewhere ). 3) Sell the Channel Tunnel rai...

Holland’s first game in the 1974 World Cup, when they first revealed their brand of “Total Football”

Eni is ready to sell its Transitgas and TENP pipelines on the market and sell its TAG pipeline to a public entity, Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said on Thursday (4 February), adding however it will hang on to transport rights in all three assets. Eni, the world's seventh-biggest listed oil company, has been the object of an EU antitrust probe since 2007 over allegations it restricted riva...

The South Yorkshire Times reports that “the Labour Party has chosen Coun Sandra Holland as its candidate for the mayoral elections in Doncaster next year. Coun Holland has represented Conisbrough and Denaby on Doncaster Council since 2006. She also worked for Don Valley MP Caroline Flint for five years. Coun Holland was selected from a

Pay Update No 11 - MoD pay petition PCS pay update No 10, asked all members to write to John Hutton, the MoD secretary of state regarding the potential imposition of the MoD pay offer from 1 May...

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is "throwing away millions" of tax payers money on poorly designed private finance initiative (PFI) projects, according to national audit office (NAO) statistics released today.

When Channel 4's Dispatches ran a programme about how the Government squandered millions, nay billions, on lots of seemingly frivilous things it included a revelation about how the MoD spent serious amounts of money on some of the most expensive chairs you could possibly buy for an office. I don't recall the exact figure but it was stupidly large given it was only spending on chairs. Clearly, this...

Labour's Westminster Councillors have welcomed the news that health food chain Holland and Barrett has become the first high street chain to ban plastic bags from all 12 of its Westminster stores. Customers at all Holland and Barrett's 539 shops across the UK will no longer be offered disposable bags to carry home their purchases, as part of a drive to cut down on waste. Other retailers ...

The Ministry of Defence is planning to sell large numbers of its new Eurofighters to countries including Japan because it can no longer afford the orders it has been claimed.

Gracchii has an interesting article on how Holland ended up as the principal province of the independent Netherlands. Prior to this, what is now the Netherlands was coupled together with Belgium or Luxembourg and was considered "the Low Countries". However, the geographical boundaries of the Waal and Maas rivers to serve to separate the northern Netherlands (i.e. the modern state of the Netherland...