Why the Health and Social Care Bill has to be amended or abandoned if we are to have an NHS
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Allyson Pollock – one of my heroes – wrote this in the Guardian today. Please share it widely, which is why I quote at length: Put simply,
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Who pays for street lights in the neoliberal world?
Monday, October 24th, 2011I spend a lot of time criticising neoliberal policy here, and rightly so. But I also accept that the real right wing libertarian neoliberals argue
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If Europe is serious about reform it should suspend its competition laws
Monday, October 10th, 2011The European Union is built on the basis of the idea that the free flow of capital between nation states without impediment placed in its way
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Dear House of Lords - please tell Lansley where to stuff his Bill (or words to that effect)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011400 medics have signed the following letter published in the Daily Telegraph today (hat tip to Liberal Conspiracy): Dear Honourable Members of the House of
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Why the tax gap matters - or why I appeared in court for UK Uncut
Sunday, September 25th, 2011I wrote the following at the request of the Brighton Evening Argus for publication after the close of the UK Uncut trial in that city, in which I appeared as an expert
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The tax gap - HMRC puts out another work of fiction suggesting it's falling
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011HMRC issued the following press release today: The tax gap is the difference between the tax in theory that should be collected by HMRC and
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Serious economists should not indulge in fact-free grandstanding
Friday, September 9th, 2011The following letter is in the FT this morning: Sir, Serious economists should not indulge in fact-free grandstanding. There is no hard evidence to support
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Maybe Osborne's quite happy a double dip that provides cover for all he wants to do
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011I thought this comment from Ivan Horrocks in response to my blog post from earlier today to be found here was too good not to
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Is the Tory plan to pull us out of the EU before the next election?
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011The above suggestion has come up in the comments on this blog from Andrew Dickie – a man whose political antennaue seems sound to me.
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