The chancellor must end austerity now – it is punishing an entire generation
Monday, November 20th, 2017I co-signed this letter published in the Guardian this morning: Seven years of austerity has destroyed lives. An estimated 30,000 excess deaths can be linked
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Money changes everything
Thursday, October 19th, 2017I pretty much make it a matter of policy to ignore whatever Tom Worstall has to say. He is a fellow of the Adam Smith
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Can we afford the NHS?
Monday, October 16th, 2017I can’t do better than share this post from Progressive Pulse this morning, which I do, with permission of the authors: Authors: David Laws, Consultant
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The NHS is not a Ponzi scheme
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017Justice Minister Phillip Lee MP (no, you’re not alone: I’d also never heard of him before) told a Tory Party fringe meeting that the NHS
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We need good administrators but the Guardian's wrong to consider them the elite
Monday, September 25th, 2017The Guardian published an article yesterday on the UK’s most powerful people. The headline said: Revealed: Britain’s most powerful elite is 97% white The article
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The Bank of England: still living in a world of legal denial of the fact that it makes new money for the government
Thursday, September 14th, 2017A reader of this blog shared the following email exchange between him, and the Bank of England with me and asked me to comment upon
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This week
Monday, August 28th, 2017I am supposedly on holiday this week. I use the term loosely. It’s one of those weeks where there is a lot of stuff to
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GERS: is this why it always says the Scottish deficit is so large?
Friday, August 25th, 2017I have been continually bemused by the fact that GERS – Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland – and its equivalent data for Wales and Northern
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NHS spending data: necessary spend per person is falling and demand cannot be met as a result
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017There has been some discussion on the blog, on Twitter and elsewhere since Saturday’s debate at the Royal Society of Medicine on NHS England budgets
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