Has the Health budget been cut?
The Chancellor today announced that Health spending would rise in real terms. A closer look at the numbers suggest that the Health budget will fall against the baseline set out in the June Budget.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Comprehensive Spending Review live web chat
Join Left Foot Forward, LabourList, Liberal Conspiracy, Political Scrapbook and the New Statesman for our Comprehensive Spending Review live web chat.
A crackdown on tax dodgers will help the poor and make huge cuts unnecessary
The UK loses £120bn a year through tax evasion, tax avoidance and uncollected tax; launching a crackdown on tax dodgers will raise billions to help the poor.
Payback? Osborne’s raid on BBC gives Murdochs exactly what they wanted
Ideologically-driven Conservatives have seized the economic crisis to knock back the BBC – and it only took 48 hours, writes Left Foot Forward’s Joy Johnson.
There is an alternative
George Osborne will stand up today and tell the House of Commons that there’s “no alternative” to the pain of his cuts. Every time he does so, he’s lying.
What could be done with £7.5bn?
Alan Johnson yesterday set out plans for taxes on banks & banking which he says will raise £7.5bn by the end of the Parliament, but what should he spend it on?
Strategic Defence Review: Cameron bats away Trident alternatives
David Cameron today launched a Strategic Defence Review he described as “more thoughtful, more strategic and more co-ordinated” than it’s 1998 predecessor.
Benn: “Unacceptable” there is so little debate and no vote on spending review
It is “simply unacceptable” for the government to devote such little time to the Comprehensive Spending Review, and for there to be no vote, writes Hilary Benn.
Lifting the lid on Islamist radicalisation at British universities
When former UCL student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb on Christmas Day 2009, the spotlight was on radicalisation of university students.
Security Strategy fails to address failed states and nuclear proliferation
Britain’s new National Security Strategy clearly lays out the paradigms within which the Army must conceptualise future conflicts, writes Capt. Patrick Bury.