I surprised myself yesterday with my desire to respond to the Resolution Foundation’s publication of its new book, Unsung Britain. The book is meant to
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The Resolution Foundation on poverty: the required responses
Having noted yesterday the inadequate proposals for tackling poverty from the Resolution Foundation, included in a new book that they have published, I thought it
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The finance curse is killing Britain
Why does Britain feel poorer, more unequal and less productive than it should be? In this Funding the Future podcast, I speak with John Christensen,
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The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction
The Resolution Foundation (RF) sent me a very breathy press release / email this morning, promoting this: As they say: The 13 million working-age families
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Vote Reform: get tax rises
In the context of the post I have just made, showing that Reform voters are very keen to cut state spending, it is really quite
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The politics of destruction in action
As the FT reports this morning: A record share of people in the UK say taxes and public spending should be cut, according to a
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Desperate people
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on Keir Starmer to stand down yesterday. Maybe he expected others to follow suit. They didn’t. So why did
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The Royal speciality: creating PR disasters
I think I should make it clear when posting this copy of a Tweet that I am a member of Republic, which posted it, but
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The odds-on bet is that the royal’s days are numbered
Five days is like a decade in politics right now. Yesterday, the likelihood that the royal family will be dragged into real peril by Andrew
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