I have struggled to make sense of the claims issued by Boris Johnson overnight that, in his opinion, show that he is innocent of misleading
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(Stand for) A little respect
Are the Tories in the mood for an election?
There are rumours about that the Tories are switching into election mode, with an early autumn election on the cards. The thinking is not that
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The blog email newsletter – does it need to change?
Several people have asked me over the last week or so whether they can have email updates from the blog more often than those sent
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Why do people think the risk of inflation is so much bigger than it really is?
I have reviewed the Bank of England’s latest survey of opinion on inflation, which has just been published. The results are, to be kind, quite
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The government will save £60 billion with its pay settlement with the nurses, and destroy the NHS and the health of the nation
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: The news that there had been a (bad) pay offer in the NHS pay dispute still gave
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230,000
This took a long time to arrive: I reached 220,000 followers last December, having been accumulating 10,000 or more new followers a month for most
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The UK government’s money: where it is spent and how it is reclaimed
These two charts used to be the opening data in budget reports. Now they are consigned to the very end, but they do give a
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The NHS pay deal looks like a perpetual 6.4% pay cut to me
I have done my workings on the NHS pay deal and I am completely baffled that any union would accept what is on offer. First,
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