Mike Thatcher

About Mike Thatcher

Mike Thatcher has been the editor of Public Finance magazine and publicfinance.co.uk since 2000. He previously had senior editorial roles on business publications covering the worlds of HR and printing. Before that, he was an economic analyst, working in the City. You can email him at editorial@publicfinance.co.uk.

All for one?

15 December 2011 | Mike Thatcher

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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Out is no longer in

28 October 2011 | Mike Thatcher

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...

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States of mind

26 September 2011 | Mike Thatcher

Ronald Reagan famously claimed that ‘government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem’. Read more

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In all events

29 July 2011 | Mike Thatcher

‘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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Surveying the situation

28 June 2011 | Mike Thatcher

Help us to improve Public Finance and publicfinance.co.uk by filling in a short questionnaire and letting us know your views. You could win £100 in M&S vouchers Read more

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The PF website: a modern makeover

27 May 2011 | Mike Thatcher

It’s not only Public Finance magazine that has had a makeover in recent weeks and months. Our website, publicfinance.co.uk, has been given a more modern look to help showcase the regularly updated content. Read more

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Politics, actually

20 May 2011 | Mike Thatcher

All relationships go through phases. It’s probably fair to say that the Conservative/LibDem coalition has entered the realistic phase. Read more

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Man with a plan? By Mike Thatcher

25 March 2011 | Mike Thatcher

‘Britain has a plan and we’re sticking to it’, George Osborne declared in his Budget statement on March 23. Read more...

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Frontline first? By Mike Thatcher

31 January 2011 | Mike Thatcher

Just before David Cameron moved into Number Ten, he was asked what would happen if his ministers proposed cuts that involved frontline reductions. ‘They’ll be sent straight back to their departments to think again,’ he claimed. Read more...

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Coming soon… By Mike Thatcher

18 November 2010 | Mike Thatcher

The French tell us that the more things change, the more they stay the same. And that might appear to be the case for Public Finance. Read more...

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