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The simple alternatives to Osborne’s cretinous Plan C
This was my less-than-measured immediate twitter-response to Osborne’s Mansion House announcements last night: Osborne plan: start economic recovery via support for High Street bank lending? Utter...
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Now the FT joins the literacy illiteracy
Stephen Robinson, an ‘author and political commentator’ writing for the Financial Times today, is clearly a Michael Gove fan: Michael Gove is surely on to something with his announcement this week of a...
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How Labour should respond to the Gove Terror
The benchmark for excellence in response to the leaked ‘O’ Level/CSE plans has been set by Christopher Cook at the FT, with his convincing use of the National Pupil Database to show that the poorest...
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Victory for TCF as Michael Gove forced to lie slightly less than before
Gove’s statement to parliament on the ‘O level’ leak contained this justification: The sad truth is that, if we look at the objective measure of how we have done over the past 15 years, we find that on...
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The privatisation of democratic scrutiny: the strange case of Lancashire...
The Lancashire Evening Telegraph reports (i.e. copies and pastes a press release) : A NEW organisation to improve health and social services in Lancashire has been unveiled. Lancashire County Council...
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How new is the new nastiness?
How new is the Tories’ new nastiness? Quite new, it would appear: Geroge Osborne, 2011 Autumn Statement: I also want to protect those who are not able to work because of their disabilities and those,...
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Is this the next stage of the NHS privatisation plan?
The online social enterprise community – of which I may now well be an honorary member – has had some debate about the importance or otherwise of the Secretary of State for Health’s recent definition,...
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Cameron opens the way for a triple Labour victory
Update 3.30pm 23/01/2013: Miliband’s seemingly statement that he doesn’t want an in/out referendum, this lunchtime at PMQs, merely highlights the need for the tactic advocated here: that whether...
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Could Cameron land us with two referenda by mistake?
In my main post on Cameron’s EU debacle earlier, I noted how the European Union Act 2011, pushed through by Cameron as a way of deflecting attention from his failure to live up to his “cast iron”...
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Cameron’s other budget speech lie
The big news of the day for econo-geeks is the letter from the Head of the Office of Budget Responsibility to Cameron, rebuking him for his false assertions over the impact of austerity on growth. In...
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Evaluating Cameronism: was it Talebian or Thalerian?
On Thursday Miliband criticized Cameron for his failure to foresee or do anything about the collapse of the Libyan state. Cameron’s reaction was: I’ve learnt as prime minister that it is so important...
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