Suppose we got rid of the management pretence that public services can be run by trusts? What would that save?
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024As the FT notes this morning: The British government could save at least £20bn a year by modernising IT systems, tackling fraud and getting a
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How to manage the supply of public goods
Monday, January 15th, 2024As I noted yesterday, it is not just the Post Office that is failing badly at present; HM Revenue & Customs is as well. As
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We do not need tax cuts: what we need is more spend and tax. That's our only hope.
Monday, January 8th, 2024The FT reports this morning that: Unpacking that, what Sunak is saying is: The Mail wants tax cuts and he will deliver them. To supposedly
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Labour needs to get real experts who know WTAF they’re doing or risk a one term meltdown
Friday, January 5th, 2024Den Howlett is an old friend of mine. Readers of this blog have a lot to thank him for. He was the accountant and tech
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Labour is apparently planning tax cuts that can only mean the end for public services as we have known them
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024The Times is reporting this morning that: Rachel Reeves is weighing up plans to offer income tax or national insurance cuts in Labour’s general election
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What will 2024 bring?
Monday, January 1st, 2024Happy new year. I thought I’d offer some predictions for 2024. They are in no particular order. Many will be wrong, but thinking about what
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Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost
Sunday, December 31st, 2023I wrote this Twitter thread today to respond to the drivel being put out by the Tories on wrong-footing Labour on the national debt, which
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We have malnutrition in the UK because our food manufacturers know that nothing is more profitable than hooking people on products destructive to their wellbeing
Friday, December 22nd, 2023As The Guardian notes this morning: More than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year, a threefold increase on
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Is it time to charge VAT on ultra-processed foods because of the massive harm that they do to society?
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023The Guardian has an article with this headline this morning: It also has an article with this headline: The two between them reveal a truth
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