NHS bid rigged
Friday, August 8th, 2014The FT reports this morning that: A plan that would have taken the NHS into uncharted territory by inviting external bids to run a deficit-ridden
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Tax is the natural frontier for general election debate
Sunday, August 3rd, 2014The Observer’s main editorial today is headlined: On tax, our politicians are just too cowardly I promise that as the author of The Courageous State who
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We need to choose the right big idea
Thursday, July 31st, 2014Former Conservative MP Matthew Parris was interesting on the BBC's Moral Maze last night. He argued that we are not living in an era when
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Tax is a big idea
Monday, July 28th, 2014Steve Richards argues in the Guardian this morning that Ed Miliband may be right, and that ideas could be the factor that determines the outcome
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Thanks - and what's next
Monday, July 14th, 2014I was, I admit, very surprised and a little overwhelmed by the response to my blog entitled ‘What does matter?’ written and published early on
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The economics of deeply divided Britain
Monday, June 30th, 2014The FT reports this morning that: Business confidence has climbed to its highest level for at least 22 years, with optimism growing in all UK
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How our NHS has been abolished
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014This video of Allyson Pollock at a Tedx event is brilliant. Please watch it:
The NHS worked. Now it's biggest threat is reform
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014I don’t always agree with Will Hutton. This morning I do. Writing in the Observer his article is entitled: The NHS is loved and efficient,
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We need to tell the truth: the state is an extraordinarily efficient supplier of public services
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014I am of the opinion that of all the economic organisations we have available to us the state is not just potentially one of the
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