As regular readers of this blog will know, I am a lark and not an owl. As such starting tweeting for the BBC at 10.20pm is
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I am the ‘Extra Guest’ on BBC’s Question Time tonight. That does not mean you will see me on the panel on televsion – it
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This comes from the CLASS web site and refers to a new paper by Duncan Bowie on social housing that I recommend. It’s part of
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A new, long Vanity Fair article hits the newsstands this week written by Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands. As Vanity Fair’s short online summary says: “In an
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In a 3,800 word essay for the New Statesman Vince Cable has concluded that the government has to invest in the economy to get us out of
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As the Guardian reports this morning: Serco, the leading private contractor of government services, fiddled its data when reporting to the NHS on targets it had failed to meet,
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The BBC announced this at lunchtime today:   But please note that this does not mean I will be on the programme. It means I
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This is good: From here Hat tip: Tess Riley

In April 2008 I wrote a blog with the title ‘FTSE at 6,000 – is this madness’. It was, of course. I was right. This
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