BUDGET 2016: What’s wrong with a giveaway budget? I’m finally hopeful

I HAD a dreadful thought during the budget. It occurred to me that I had worked on or around every budget, in one capacity or another, since 1983.

I know what you’re thinking — it can’t have been easy to contribute to budget policy from a pram.

Joking apart, it seems to me that our political culture hasn’t changed one whit since then.