Pretty well hidden in the Guardian web site this morning is an article about comments made by retiring NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson. It is reported that he said:
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When is a pay rise just a cock-up?
I am reading reports of the pay rise for MPs and presume they are well informed; these things usually are. I am one of the
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What will politics look like if Labour has no money?
As the Guardian notes this morning: The Labour party could lose as much as 90% of its annual income from the unions, the GMB general secretary, Paul
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We need economic policy with a bias to the least well off
As John Kay argues in the FT this morning: The one certain outcome of QE is that those with assets benefit relative to those without.
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The best reaction to Miliband’s speech that I’ve read is that without changing policy Labour won’t entice 3 million to join
The best reaction to Miliband’s speech that I have read comes from Gregor Gall, professor of industrial relations at the University of Bradford, writing in the Guardian:
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The ideological battle that ordinary people have to win
I have already referred to FT columnist Janan Ganesh once today. Let me pick another but from his article, as it is so telling as to what
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US corporations pay tax at 17% – and that’s just not enough to create a fair society.
Prof Kim Clausing sent me a link to a new report from the United States Government Accountability Office entitled ‘Corporate Income Tax: Effective Tax Rates Can Differ
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Is Labour LINO or the real thing? That is the question.
Right wing FT columnist Janan Ganesh this morning summarises rather neatly, if inadvertently, just what the issue is in Labour at the moment by saying: The
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What can the left do politically?
I have written, or at least quoted, today about the need for trade unions and what trade union thinking might deliver for an economic recovery.
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