In a thoughtful and, at times, radical speech tonight at the LSE, James Purnell outlined why he believes the Labour party must go beyond its focus on equality of opportunity with a series of reforms to the market, state, andtest
Quick off the blocks, Clifford Singer’s popular MyDavidCameron website is spoofing the Tories’ new campaign poster. While a new website, I’ve Never Voted Tory is also collating spoofs. Pick of the bunch in our humble opinion: And You can sendtest
20 economists have called for a credible fiscal plan. This exposes divisions with the academic community but little support for the Tory’s cut-at-any-cost policy.
I’ve removed an article titled “Tory document still claims deprived under-18s 3x more likely to become pregnant” which was factually inaccurate. As other outlets have reported, the teen pregnancy blunder related to a misplaced decimal place. Left Foot Forward doesn’ttest
The Conservatives week has started badly. The Guardian highlights another “butter-fingered operation of the calculator” as the Tories get their sums wrong again. A Conservative party attack document, ‘Labour’s Two Nations’, claimed – three times – that women under 18test
Joan Bakewell has launched an attack on the Tory’s tombstone poster. It follows Andrew Lansley’s admission that Cameron did not know about private talks on social care.
This has been around for a couple of weeks so not exactly new but, certainly for the wonky among you, absolutely hilarious. Watch the EconStories Hayek vs Keynes rap anthem: Hat-tip: Political Scrapbook Left Foot Forward doesn’t have the backingtest
The Conservative party were on the defensive last night over their planned cuts to the Child Tax Credit amid accusations that their sums don’t add up.
The Telegraph reports that “Goldman Sachs is investigating claims that one of its computers was used to rig a public vote on the introduction of a so-called “Robin Hood tax” on bankers.” Technical staff for the Robinhoodtax.org.uk website said thetest
An extraordinary new video from Eric Pickles selectively cites 2005 election results. It erroneously claims that AV would be less fair than the current system.
