Neoliberal Myths
Friday, February 10th, 2023Once the Tax Research Glossary is up and running with sufficient entries to make it useful the next issue that I intend to tackle is
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Alcohol: the drug we will not talk about
Monday, July 15th, 2024I have never understood why anyone needs to get drunk to watch a football match. People have tried to explain it to me, but they
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Wes Streeting needs to talk about Covid
Friday, July 12th, 2024If you listened to the news and our politicians you would think that the word Covid had been banned from use. Four years ago the
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Wes Streeting has had years to work out what's wrong with the NHS, but now he's in office he apaprently needs consultants to tell him what he should already know
Thursday, July 11th, 2024As the Guardian has reported this morning: An independent investigation will be held into the performance of the NHS, the health secretary has announced. Writing in
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Tony Blair on AI
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024I just listened to Tony Blair being interviewed on Radio 4. I can recall the days when Tony Blair, who had apparently never turned on
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Wes Streeting should stop maligning the NHS
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024Sometimes, it is worth promoting someone else’s blog because it is worth reading. This morning, I will give a plug to Roy Lilley’s blog on
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Labour threat to NHS
Monday, July 8th, 2024This speech, under the title noted above, was given by the late Frank Dobson MP, who preceded Keith Starmer as Labour MP for Holborn and
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I could be wrong about this, but I doubt it
Friday, July 5th, 2024We have a Labour government. For the sake of the record, and of setting a benchmark for my expectations, this is what I expect to
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Is Labour planning to do PFI again?
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024I have published this video this morning. In it, I argue that the private finance initiative (PFI) was one of the worst legacies of the
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