The nurses' pay award will be about much more than 1%. This is about deciding the type of society that we want in the post-Covid world
Saturday, March 6th, 2021I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Why does Johnson wants to take on the nurses? Is this his Union fight; a version
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Pointless pain is what we’re enduring. And all for the sake of accepting that money is not a constraint on our potential, and never will be
Friday, March 5th, 2021There is no budget that does not unravel. Rishi Sunak’s has. It’s apparent there is much wrong with it, but the most significant was the
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This is a budget built on three fantasies
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021I would love to think that this country is heading for good times again. Today’s budget is not going to deliver that outcome. There are
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The national debt paranoia
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021It felt like the morning for a Twitter thread on the national debt. I just published this: We have just had another week when the
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The interview I want to hear on Radio 4
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021I have been asked by some politicians to answer the question ‘How we should we deal with the mountain of Covid debt?’ which is the
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If Sunak does not give essential services the money that they need on Wednesday then we are all in very deep trouble
Monday, March 1st, 2021Has a budget ever been leaked as much as this Wednesday’s? No doubt there is a rabbit left in Sunak’s hat, but most must be
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The framing of the budget
Sunday, February 28th, 2021This Twitter thread actually began life as a blog post, then moved to Twitter, and now I bring it back again: The framing of this
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Sunday morning thoughts
Sunday, February 28th, 2021These got posted on Twitter this morning, the last two as a very short thread: How many times this week will we hear the lie
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Poor theory, driving delusional thinking, is resulting in dire government decision making
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021It struck me overnight that there us at the heart of this government’s policy paradoxical and incoherent choice. Let’s assume there are just three big
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