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Economic dogma, George Osborne and Grenfell Tower
What has the horror at Grenfell Tower to do with economists? And what have the lives lost at Grenfell Tower to do with the government’s budget deficit? A great deal, I will argue here. When on Twitter...
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What does inequality look like?
What does inequality look like? In a society where the gap between rich and poor has widened significantly, what evidence of that gap would one expect to see? A dramatic and painful answer to that...
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After the Grenfell fire
Before “We need good costs for Cllr Feilding-Mellen and the planner tomorrow at 8.45am!” In July 2014, this chillingly innocuous-looking email was sent from a project manager to a cost consultant in...
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The National Policy Forum Annual Report 2017
The NPF Annual Report was quietly released on 3rd August by placing it on membersnet but making no announcement of the fact. Would it have been so hard to email members to tell them the document is now...
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NPF Reports review: Housing
Housing, which was covered by the Communities policy commission, is now incorporated within the Housing, Local Government and Transport Policy Commission. It has met three times between February and...
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NPF Report reviews: Health & Care
There is nothing like a snap General Election to shake health and care priorities out a thicket of possible options and fuzzy thinking. And like the rest of the document, the health and care proposals...
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NPF Report reviews – Work, Pensions and Equality
Serious discussions of Social Security policy start from a few fundamental questions. One is the balance between contributions and means-testing as a basis for entitlement, another the balance between...
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Towards a National Pharmaceutical Service
There are some problems which are too big for the private sector to handle. I’ve given extensive arguments explaining why this is the case for climate change and why solutions will require public...
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A Spectacular Own Goal?
A new group called the Labour Campaign for Free Movement has been launched. It says that thousands have already signed up to its campaign statement. It is also clearly hoping that the model resolution...
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Socialism and immigration – a reply to Don Flynn
Don Flynn claims that I argued “that support for the right of migrants to freedom of movement is the same as support for the free movement of capital”. Readers of my article can see that I said no such...
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