Little sense and less sensibility: the government’s route to many more Covid deaths
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021I watched the Prime Minister’s press conference last night. I read the ‘road map’. I read expert reaction in the media and on Twitter. And
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Labour’s Recovery Bonds are a work in progress, but they are also a decided step in the right direction
Friday, February 19th, 2021Having been taken slightly by surprise to find that Labour appeared to be promoting an idea I have long been associated with, having first suggested
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To save the planet, we need a new type of growth
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021Colin Hines and I have this letter in The Guardian today: There is no better example of what Larry Elliott perceptively terms “capitalism for dummies”,
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This government might have achieved its aim: it is destroying confidence in government itself
Friday, February 12th, 2021The Guardian notes the governments plans for NHS returns today. I admit I have not read these plans in as much detail as I would
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The CBI is right: we need some serious economic planning
Thursday, February 4th, 2021A week or so ago one of the commentators on this blog asked if I might suggest now to be the time for a 1945
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Are we all to succumb to the outright nastiness of the small-minded nationalist outlook now?
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021According to the Guardian: Labour must make “use of the [union] flag, veterans [and] dressing smartly” as part of a radical rebranding to help it
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Money: lessons to be learned
Monday, February 1st, 2021To continue Helen Schofield series on money, this is the last substantial part, although an epilogue will follow. Earlier parts can be linked here Once
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Were the tax cuts to big business and the well off worth the deaths we are now seeing from coronavirus?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The crisis in the NHS is overwhelming this week. It has reminded me of conversations I had
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It’s a sad day when mainstream politicians have reached such depths of indifference to suffering
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021As the FT is reporting this morning, there is a growing demand from Tory MPs for the government to fix a date to end the
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