Shall we get rid of democracy?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015I noted this in the FT this morning: Fortunately for the UK, the previous coalition government at least pushed infrastructure higher up the political agenda
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Osborne declares class warfare
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015According to many newspapers George Osborne will be announcing tonight that it is his intention to run long term budget surpluses in the UK so
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Let's be clear about what Lord Carter is saying: the NHS market does not work
Sunday, June 7th, 2015The Observer has reported that: Inefficient hospitals [are] ‘wasting hundreds of millions of pounds each year’ and Labour peer Lord Carter [is] to list poor
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What will fail? And what can be done about it? Comment and contributions welcome
Thursday, June 4th, 2015Long time commentator on this blog Ivan Horrocks has posted this comment: It’d be an interesting exercise in prediction if between the us (ie. you
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Lansley's NHS reforms have failed. Now it is time to sweep them away
Thursday, June 4th, 2015I wrote yesterday about the failure of the market in the NHS. Within hours the Guardian had reported: NHS regulators are to take control of
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Jeremy Hunt needs to eliminate competition from the NHS
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015I am amused (but only very slightly, and then sardonically) by the fact that Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is having to impose regulation on
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My Queen's Speech: a radical programme for the UK
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015Tomorrow is Queen’s Speech day. No government that might have been elected would have presented the programme I would wish for. These would have been
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Goodbye to TTIP?
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015As the Guardian reports this morning: Barack Obama’s ambitions to pass sweeping new free trade agreements with Asia and Europe fell at the first hurdle
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The stakes are at their highest sometime next weekend
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015It seems that come what may we will have a hung parliament on Friday. The constitutional position in the event of a hung parliament seems
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