Tomorrow's World

Instantaneous news thesedays provides viewers, readers and listeners with blow by blow accounts of events around the world in real time.

Newspapers are now available online too, although a loyal readership purchase thousands of hard copies each day of several Titles: The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, News of the World, The Times Literary Supplement, Page3.Com, thelondonpaper - all produced and distributed at News International http://www.newsinternational.co.uk/ Park Plaza, Cheshunt.

News International - part of http://www.newscorp.com/ - welcomed students from Hertford Regional College who wrote in a thank you letter to me 'we were pretty bowled over' by the magnitude of the site and all that it achieves on a daily basis.

Robots collect and dispose of the refuse, efficiently and quietly - skillfully avoiding obstacles and expensive machinery, not least, people. Now there is a thought for residential refuse collections!

Bringing together businesses and young people is so important, not to fill the bucket but to light the fire given the likely budget* cuts of £55-£65bn from 2010, thanks to Labour.

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*But in fact much the largest cuts announced in the Budget have had almost no publicity at all. Look at paragraph 2.81, p35 of 2009 Budget http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/Budget2009/bud09_completereport_2520.pdf

This states: This Budget puts the public finances on a path to achieve a cyclically-adjusted current balance in 2017-18. The cyclically-adjusted current deficit falls from 6.7 per cent in 2009-10 to 3.2 per cent of GDP in 2013-14, an average improvement of over 0.8 per cent a year... A further adjustment of 0.8 per cent of GDP a year from 2014-15 would eliminate the deficit on the cyclically-adjusted current budget by 2017-18. What this says is that from 2014-5 to 2017-18, the 2009 Budget schedules fiscal tightening (tax rises or spending cuts) of 3.2% of GDP, that is to say, a little under £50bn. Because this is about addressing a structural deficit, it won’t be corrected by the economy returning to healthy growth – this 3.2% is the deficit even when the economy is growing well.