October 2011
Just who WILL Osborne listen to?
We’re in a unique political economy, one in which there is no market discipline on the government pursuing the wrong […]
Pickles needs a friend
Today hasn’t been a good day for Eric Pickles – even Gideon was mocking him: ““Economic advisor to Gordon Brown”. I’m […]
Government continues not being greenest ever
Following on from Hammond’s environmentally destructive attempt at populism on Friday, the Conservatives have this weekend struck two more blows […]
‘Back of a fag packet’ housing policy continues
Kevin Gulliver is the director of Birmingham-based research charity The Human City Institute and chair of the Centre for Community Research but […]
Osborne dreaming of a race to the bottom
Alex Hern argues that much of the chancellor George Osborne’s plans for economic growth will put the UK in a race to the bottom which it cannot possibly win.
Gideon’s grotesque attempt to blame workers’ rights for unemployment
George Osborne’s speech Tory party conferencetoday was (amongst other things) a transparent attempt to shift the blame for unemployment to workers’ rights.