We are, at present, in the very early stages of the worst recession that this country will have seen for almost a century. No one
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YouGov have not got modern monetary theory as yet, so they’re asking the public all the wrong questions on the recession to come
This is depressing: If measures are needed to be put in place to reduce the deficit, which best fits your view? Mainly tax rises: 47%
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The government wants to row back on its already pathetic commitment to making the UK’s housing stock thermally efficient
I have already noted this morning the cuts that Johnson is planning to announce to the school renovation programme. The FT has noted another planned
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Boris Johnson’s £1 billion for school renovation is little more than a lick of paint over a mean programme of cuts
The Guardian reports this morning that: Schools in England are being promised a £1bn rebuilding programme as Boris Johnson commits to giving children a “world-class education” after
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FDR would be rolling in his grave at the idea that Michael Gove might be a New Dealer
Micheal Gove’s Ditchley lecture, given yesterday, was premised on the idea that the Tories are going to deliver a New Deal for the ‘Forgotten Man’
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Micheal Gove thinks tax should be managed locally in the UK – just as HMRC is finishing its closure programme of almost all local tax offices
In his Ditchley lecture on the future of the role of government yesterday Michael Gove said: He added: Before saying: And this from a man
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Michael Gove’s Ditchley lecture on innovation and risk taking – given to an ageing, very largely white and besuited audience
I have read Micheal Gove’s speech on the future of government, delivered last night as the Ditchley Lecture. The speech was all about supposedly radicalising
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There could be more than 6 million unemployed people in the UK by Christmas and no one seems to be planning for that possibility
I am seeing the first signs of awareness that we really are heading for an economic disaster in this country. Larry Elliott wrote about it
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Arrogant and offensive. (That Civil Service tweet set to music…)
Do you recall that tweet about Johnson and Cummings on the UK official civil service twitter account? There’s a report here. Mark Northfield has set
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