What became very clear yesterday was that our Cabinet does not understand exponential growth. As I noted on Sunday, the SAGE report that was published
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The word of 2022
All I want for Christmas is a government capable of acting in the public interest
I know it is Christmas week. And I do know the significance of Christmas for many, although I will admit that my mother’s distaste for
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The government has to act on a Covid lockdown today. By tomorrow it has to say what it will do to support the economy, which is likely to crash in January. Nothing less will do.
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I have already suggested in a blog post written this morning that today is pivotal to what
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To describe today, and the decisions that will be taken during its course, as pivotal to not just what happens in 2022, but to the longer-term with regard to the political economy of this country, is an understatement
I apologise for being the bearer of bad news on this last Sunday before Christmas, but the current economic outlook is dire. I base this
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Rishi Sunak – a man who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
I quoted this Guardian article on Twitter yesterday and I do so unashamedly again this morning here: It’s worth noting what came next as well:
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I worry about how politics might come out on the other side of omicron. Can democracy survive the idiots that we have in the Commons?
I have already noted this morning that exceptionally serious scientists and the UK’s chief medical officers all agree that we face the risk of the
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Reasonable forecasts suggest that we are facing a health crisis of a scale no-one in the UK has ever previously experienced
The UK’s chief medical officers increased their assessment of the threat from Covid to level five yesterday. What that means is that they think that
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We are so very, very far from levelling up when this Tory government has done its level best to make the UK a more unequal place
The New Economics Foundation has a new report out this morning on the impact of the Covid crisis on income and wealth using modelling originally
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