Local Government

This was the U-turn that wasn’t: the time the Chancellor of the Exchequer became a quasi-Keynesian, pumping money into roads, rail and broadband to get Britain’s economy moving in a Brownesque stimulus package.

It’s a little known fact that Tim Burton, director of, among other films, The Nightmare Before Christmas, was inspired to write the script for this film after he observed a shop’s Halloween decorations being taken down and immediately replaced by Christmas baubles.