The Bank of England can’t even make up decent falsehoods to justify its policies
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, gave another of his excruciating speeches on economics yesterday. You only had to read it to
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What is Labour up to?
Monday, March 27th, 2023I know there are those who do not like me questioning Labour when it seems very likely they might be the next government. I, however,
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Should we pay MPs more?
Sunday, March 26th, 2023I have already discussed whether a wealthy person can be a successful prime minister this morning. A related issue that came up in my Times
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Data on doctors leaving the NHS could not justify the pension bung for the very wealthy
Monday, March 20th, 2023I was approached by David Burke of the Daily Mirror yesterday to comment on this data in the context of the new pension tax reliefs
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The government will save £60 billion with its pay settlement with the nurses, and destroy the NHS and the health of the nation
Friday, March 17th, 2023I have just posted this thread on Twitter: The news that there had been a (bad) pay offer in the NHS pay dispute still gave
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The NHS pay deal looks like a perpetual 6.4% pay cut to me
Friday, March 17th, 2023I have done my workings on the NHS pay deal and I am completely baffled that any union would accept what is on offer. First,
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A budget for tinkering as the economy sinks
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023Having listened to the budget with the main intention of talking about it on Radio 2 immediately after the Chancellor sat down, and having since
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Whatever Hunt does today will be tinkering at the edges of a budget that will offer the continuation of the UK’s economic decline
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023It is Budget Day. As a consequence I will be in Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 studio at about 13.30 today, discussing the budget as
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The neoliberals are missing the ball on the NHS
Monday, March 13th, 2023As I tweeted yesterday: There is a junior doctor’s strike next week. Patients will be harmed , but they are anyway everyday by a government
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