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What’s the damage?
We have been warned that next week’s Emergency Budget could bring pain for years to come. Cameron’s coalition has promised that such pain is inevitable but that the medicine will be administered fairly. But there remain many questions about what such ‘fairness’ means in practice.
Banking was already broken before the crash
The report deals comprehensively with the issues of structure, regulation and the culture and ethics of banks. However, it stops short of openly recognising and addressing three key failings of the UK banking system that existed even when CDOs were mere glints in the bankers’ eyes
Britain on the slow road to broadband
The OECD yesterday released a tranche of statistics on broadband penetration in member countries as of the end of 2009
Child benefit cuts will result in a worse deal for the poor
Today’s Guardian reports that the new Lib Dem/Tory Chancellor George Osborne has made plans to cut spending on child benefit by ‘targeting’ the benefit.
Clegg’s £10k tax allowance is no Tory concession; it’s a Tory dream
The Lib Dem income tax plans will usher in the biggest increase in income inequality in the UK of any single policy since Nigel Lawson’s 1988 tax-cutting budget.
Tory married tax break masks wider threat to Britain’s families
The Tories have today unveiled their £3 per week tax break for a third of married couples which they hope […]