Roy Lilley pointed to a fascinating article in the Harvard Business Review from 2015 this morning. In it, Tom Pohlman and Neethi Mary Thomas note that in
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The NHS in England is not being allowed to recruit new staff
The Health Service Journal reported yesterday that: NHS England has told many trusts and systems they are not allowed to increase their staffing establishment in
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A morning person
I was amused to be told yesterday by a regular commentator on the blog that if I have not posted by 8 in the morning
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The Bank of England is in for a rude awakening because people have had enough of being told they must accept being worse off
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill said yesterday that we all need to get used to the idea of being poorer. At one level,
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The BBC has at least one economics correspondent who understands economics
I have noted that the BBC has been publishing an austerity agenda view of government debt on its website. Then I noted that Andy Verity,
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The BBC should, in the interests of objective reporting, present a balanced view on the national debt
How wrong can the BBC be about money? It seems that the answer is ‘Quite dramatically wrong’. I offer as evidence an article on the
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MMT should be about the real world and not angels on pinheads
My exchanges on MMT are ongoing. One is with NeilW, who I presume to be Neil Wilson. In that exchange, I suggested that: MMT is
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We can have a better NHS, but not without spending a lot more money on it and Wes Streeting should be honest about that
Wes Streeting MP, Labour’s shadow Health Secretary announced his plans for NHS reform last Friday, but you have to work very hard to find any
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We need a Ministry of Taxation and an Office for Tax Responsibility
I was asked yesterday about an old idea of mine – or rather, two of them. They are for the need for an Office for
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