Boris Johnson is spending £5.8 million to get his coronavirus excuses in early
Sunday, March 29th, 2020As many report this morning, Boris Johnson is writing to all households in the UK at a cost of £5.8 million. The reason is to
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Is world leading NHS care an affordable proposition?
Sunday, March 29th, 2020In October 2017 the Progressive Pulse blog, which I publish but rarely appear on, posted the following blog which appeared under the above title. I
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Deficits are going to skyrocket but taxes and borrowing aren't, because QE is going to cover the cost of coronavirus
Saturday, March 28th, 2020The FT has this estimate of the scale of the UK government budget deficit in 2020/21 in the paper today: I think this is a
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Heeding advice
Friday, March 27th, 2020I admit that quite a number of people have written to me over the last few days urging me to slow down and take a
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When we’ve beaten coronavirus we’ll need to deliver the Green New Deal - and both will depend on quantitative easing
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020My friend and Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines has a letter in the Guardian this morning: Larry Elliott correctly identifies the wartime scale of
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We have to ration food: nothing else now makes sense
Monday, March 23rd, 2020I have already called for food rationing. So too now has Prof Tim Lang of City, University of London, in an article in The Conversation.
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The Green Bridge: From Tackling Coronavirus to Tackling Climate Change
Saturday, March 14th, 2020Posts that originate on this blog quite often end up being reposted on Brave New Europe. This morning the direction of travel is in the
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The budget: expect the unravelling to start soon
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020I had little doubt that Rushi Sunak’s first budget would be a disaster, and it was. It was a budget in two halves. There was
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A quick budget reaction
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020If you want to read my reaction to the budget you really have to read my twitter feed, but I did just also share this
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