Policy Guru Gifts

'My problem is that I am an informed citizen.'

Bureaucrats cooking up a new policy soup...

Ben Bernanke

Osborne's Tax Cuts

Two steps backwards-one step forward.

Caution: Crumbling Economies

Political Issues

"We used to do business more transparently, but it was too disturbing."

NATO Summit in Spain

"Good boy."

Hate Platforms

"Nation-building never works."

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"We seem to be spending more on defence than on things to defend"

"No luggage to check - I just have this carry on."

"You may have been the victim of a mis-sold PFI contract."

Israel/Palestine Conflict

The economy.

'Let's just wait here until the federal stimulus returns.'

US and the EU

'What's wrong with those Europeans? We have more murders in this city than England, France Germany and Spain combined.'

Trump Poutine

"... And to our friends in the Liberal Democratic party I award thirty pieces of silver."

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

'Did you clear this through Legal first?'

New company policy...next time you miss a meeting I need a note from a doctor or a subpoena from a judge.

Matryoshka/ Russian Gas Cylinders

"That's not a knife crime initiative. That's a knife crime initiative!"

'I'll give your note to my parents but our family policy is to never negotiate with terrorists.'

'I'm afraid the cuts are beginning to bite!'

'I'm sorry. It looks like your insurance company doesn't cover pre-existing life.'

"Our government is proud announce a whopping 1% GDP growth at the small cost of climate change nearly wiping our indigenous tribes out."

Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and David Cameron are ecstatic about the possibility of a free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated

Early Attempt at Quantitative Easing.