Let us never forget this fundamental truth: there is no source of money other than the State.
Friday, March 11th, 2022On Wednesday I noted the speech that Sajid Javid had made on the future of the NHS in England. In that speech he said: As
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Sajid Javid's speech on the future of the NHS yesterday was an exercise in setting it up to fail
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022The Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, set out his vision for the future of the NHS yesterday. The full speech is available, and I have read
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The Tories have taken us to a place where those who cannot afford Covid healthcare are simply abandoned to their fate
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022Boris Johnson’s press conference concerning his Covid plan was a staggering debacle yesterday. First, there is as such no plan. All that is actually happening
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Covid policy now is that many must suffer to keep Johnson in office
Thursday, February 10th, 2022We now know that according to the Prime Minister all Covid restrictions in England (but not, necessarily, the other countries of the UK) will be
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The national insurance increase planned for April cannot be justified
Friday, January 28th, 2022Prof Danny Blanchflower and I had a brief Twitter exchange last night on the subject of cancelling the planned national insurance increase, due in April,
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested - they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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Labour has to work out what being 'pro-business' means
Thursday, January 20th, 2022Another day, another thread from Twitter: In an interview with the Financial Times Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP has pledged that a government led by
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Remember that the Tories are only getting rid of Johnson to make things worse
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning as there is only really one story of relevance today, and that needs to be seen for
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A booming recovery is off anyone's agenda right now
Friday, January 14th, 2022These opini0n polls were issued by Ipsos Mori yesterday embargoed until this morning and were sent to me by email. What they suggest is that
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