Public sector outsourcing is a mess – and it’s the taxpayer picking up the tab
From a4e to the care homes scandal, the outsourced sector is simply out of control with bonuses for poor performance.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Glasman calls for a break from ‘viagra or vivisection’ (that’s growth or cuts, to you)
Carl Packman reports on the Maurice (Lord) Glasman’s talk at Localis, where he elaborated further on the Blue Labour brand.
Sinn Féin plans next moves towards Irish unity
Kevin Meagher reports on the further progress towards a concrete plan for Irish unity from Sinn Féin, and asks whether this shows how far Northern Ireland has come in the last few years.
What does QE3 mean for the real economy?
Ben Fox analyses what the latest round of quantitative easing means for the real economy
ConHome: Neuter the Health Bill
Daniel Elton reports on the latest high-profile defection to the campaign to save the NHS: Tim Montgomerie and ConservativeHome
A separate Scotland will be worse off if it keeps the pound
Matthew Pitt argues why an independent Scotland would be foolish to keep the pound without the UK’s agreement
Quantitative Easing is stimulating commodity trading, not the real economy
Quantitative Easing is stimulating commodity training, not the real economy. time for a ‘real’ quantitative easing, aimed and stimultaing green growth.
New growth figures point to 2012/3 deficit 50 per cent bigger than originally projected
The deficit is now set to be8.4 per cent oin 2012/3, missing Osborne’s original projection by a full 50 per cent, and one quarter above the original Darling projection
“No one uses TfL” Tory: Users should pay, except when they are my voters
Alex Hern digs up some astonishing hypocrisy from the Tory AM who tried to claim that no one uses public transport in London.
Positive trade figures undermine Osborne’s claim that Eurozone is to blame for negative growth
Will Straw explores the release of the UK’s trade figures today, and asks what they mean for the chancellor’s claim that the Eurozone is to blame for our shrinking GDP.