There is a choice on coronavirus: we can save people or the economy but not both, and the government is choosing the economy
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020I was talked through the choices that this government is making on the epidemiology of coronavirus by someone who has some insight into the subject
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Sunak has to show he understands deficits today or he's doomed from the start - and so are we
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020It is budget day. Rishi Sunak has the task of delivering what might be the most irrelevant budget I will have ever witnessed, unless he
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The government’s ill preparedness for deficit management might make a coronavirus epidemic much harder to manage than need be the case
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020As the FT has noted this morning: Rishi Sunak has vowed to take “firm action to support families, businesses and the public services” in response to
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England’s declining life expectancy is clear indication of a chronic political malaise
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020As The Guardian has noted this morning: Life expectancy has stalled for the first time in more than 100 years and even reversed for the most
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Patel’s arguments are crazy. Unless you’ve got what Priti Patel has in mind, of course.
Thursday, February 20th, 2020I would like to think that most people realise that Priti Patel’s comments, made yesterday, suggesting that British business replace those people from the EU
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The US does not have a model for a successful health service
Sunday, February 16th, 2020I thought this tweet by Clive Peedell worth sharing: Clive is Co-founder of the NHAparty. He is an NHS consultant clinical oncologist with interest in lung & prostate
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Getting the NHS ready for a bout of private capital
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020The FT has reported that: Hospitals in England are becoming increasingly dependent on short-term handouts to maintain day-to-day services, putting a question mark over the
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It's the unknown unknowns that will do for Johnson
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020Politics Home got me thinking this morning. It has a story on the £5 million the government is to spend on adverts attacking the idea
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Will there be VAT increases to pay for corporation tax cuts?
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020I have heard rumour that the Treasury is working hard on possible tax reforms. The rumour suggests that the ‘postponed’ cut in the corporation tax
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