The BBC didn't tell the story of the destruction of the NHS
Friday, September 28th, 2012The openDemocracy website has published a report into the BBC’s coverage of the highly controversial Health and Social Care Act this morning. This 8,000 word
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The real potential of QE: how we could turn our economy round now
Friday, September 21st, 2012I’ve said this before, and lots of people say I’m wrong, but I’m going to repeat it anyway. I argue that quantitative easing is actually
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Time to end PFI by compulsory repurchase
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports this morning that: As crippling repayments on private finance initiative (PFI) contracts force NHS hospitals to make cuts, a new report
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Does the government have any idea what the NHS is about?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012The BBC’s reported: High-profile NHS hospitals in England are to be encouraged by the government to set up profit-making branches abroad to help fund services
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What is Cherie Blair up to?
Saturday, August 18th, 2012The Mail has an article this morning on Cherie Blair. In itself that’s not news: the Mail is no fan of the Blairs. Nor am
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If we had tax justice there'd be no need for NHS cuts
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012www.taxjustice.net
The need for flexibility in thinking
Sunday, July 15th, 2012The failure of neoliberal thinking is increasingly seen all around us. That thinking is, of course, intensely simplistic. It says, without having any foundation in
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The Courageous State: a new review
Friday, June 22nd, 2012This is a new review of my book, The Courageous State from counterfire.org. I hope they’ll forgive me reproducing it: “The banking crisis of 2008 should have
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Suppose we all avoided tax?
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012David Aaronovitch asked a good question in the Times this morning. It’s behind a paywall so I won’t quote exactly but the essence was simply “what would
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