It might not seem like it to people working across the health service, but the NHS is one of the lucky ones when it comes to funding. Read more
The coalition government has made great play of the fact that we are ‘all in this together’. Pain will be shared so that the burden of deficit reduction is imposed fairly. Read more
As the economy still refuses to respond to the chancellor’s policies, should he breach his fiscal rules? Read more
Doubts have been raised in the past about the competence of individual Whitehall departments. Be it the Home Office, Communities & Local Government or Culture, Media & Sport, the question often asked is: are they fit for purpose? Read more
Economic recovery still seems disappointingly elusive. A double-dip recession has been confirmed and, as Sir Mervyn King reminds us, ‘a storm is heading our way from the Continent’. Read more
George Osborne, we are consistently told, is not for turning. There is no Plan B, not even a Plan A+, and the chancellor’s third Budget will stick to a tough programme of public spending cuts.
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So we’re not ‘all in this together’ after all. According to the latest British Social Attitudes survey, the public is becoming increasingly individualistic, intolerant of the poor and unwilling to pay taxes to fund services.
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You don’t have to be the governor of the Bank of England to appreciate that the current financial crisis is the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Read more...
Ronald Reagan famously claimed that ‘government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem’. Read more
‘Events, dear boy’ have certainly taken their toll on a coalition government that, only in its second year, appears stymied in all directions. Read more
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