The only reason we have a ‘small boat crisis’ is that the Tories manufactured it to suit its news agenda
Thursday, March 9th, 2023The BBC was talking about the need to ‘stop the boats’ this morning as if this was the biggest issued in UK politics right now.
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Insecurity is the biggest problem this country faces and our politicians are ignoring it
Monday, March 6th, 2023As I have already mentioned, yesterday’s poll on whether a new left-of-centre party is needed to replace Labout now that it has relocated itself on
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When there is so much need for new thinking - and when that thinking is available - we get an offering as bad as the one Labour put on the table yesterday
Friday, February 24th, 2023Keir Starmer launched a new Labour policy initiative yesterday. It managed 20 seconds on Channel 4 news, below the SNP leadership election. And there was
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Protest is public service
Friday, February 17th, 2023Last month Keir Starmer declared that Labour would “never again be a party of protest not public service”. Yesterday nurses announced 48 hours of strikes
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Neoliberal myths
Friday, February 17th, 2023One of the new pages now published on the blog refers to neoliberal myths. At the moment this is a bit of a placeholder page,
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Austerity
Thursday, February 9th, 2023Work on the glossary is advancing: it has now grown to 36,000 words and there are still more than 100 entries to add (and maybe
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Three years on Covid denial is still killing us
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: It’s hard to believe that three years ago few people had heard of Covid, and fewer still
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Getting our economics right really matters
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023I posted this thread to Twitter this morning: The NHS is under funded. As I demonstrated in a report published at the weekend, it’s not
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The real scandal about the national debt is the deliberate overstatement of it by the government
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023I started writing a long thread on NHS funding this morning before getting distracted into this one, on the absurdity of the accounting for interest
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