Most of those who made catastrophic errors on Covid are still in charge which does at least explain why so much is still going wrong.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021The House of Commons and Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee have published their Report, Coronavirus: lessons learned to date, examining
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The Green New Deal is easily affordable if we can persuade people to ‘Save for the planet’, with a little nudge from reformed tax reliefs
Monday, October 11th, 2021In Rishi Sunak’s speech to the Tory party conference last week the word ‘climate’ did not appear at all. Instead, the case that he made
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Labour has a choice to make. It can say it will balance the books or it can deliver political change, but it can’t do both
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021I noted the Politics Home email this morning suggesting that whilst the Tories have made almost no policy announcements in Manchester this week they have
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An open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on public ownership
Friday, September 24th, 2021I share this letter sent yesterday by We Own It, an organisation I have had long had sympathy with, and do so with their permission:
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The economy we had has gone: the systems that underpinned it are no longer sustainable
Saturday, September 18th, 2021As I suggested I would be, I have been reflecting this week. Some has been personal reflection. Empty nesting without even having a dog around
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Is Johnson doing a Baldrick?
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021I watched some of the press conference led by the prime minister yesterday on the government’s plan for managing Covid this winter. I then tweeted
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Falsehoods cannot win against this pandemic, but that will not stop this government trying them
Monday, September 13th, 2021One of the characteristics of Boris Johnson’s government is its ability to pretend that events will happen when evidence suggests that to be very unlikely.
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The wheels are not only off the populist bus, but it's also turned out to be a double decker with only the elite allowed on top
Thursday, September 9th, 2021The basis of the appeal of populism is twofold. One is that it can keep the wheels on the bus going round-and-round. The other is
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Yesterday’s tax plans were all about capturing tax revenues for private gain to the wealthy at cost to working people
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021Given that much of yesterday’s Tory tax plan was well-trailed and had been subject to comment here beforehand there would seem little left to say
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