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‘The Tories will take Britain back to 1930s levels of spending’ might be Labour’s most important and effective slogan in this election. Even though they can no longer use it, it’s already had an important effect, forcing Osborne into a...
Here are three things I’ve noticed recently: 1) Barney Stringer’s fascinating blog about London passing an extraordinary milestone – the population finally caught up with its 1939 peak population – from now on it will be an all-time high. London needs, Stringer...
“The cultural life of the North will get a boost,” George Osborne trumpeted in the Autumn Statement, “including a major new theatre space in Manchester. Manchester City Council propose to call it The Factory Manchester. Anyone who’s a child of...
The Commonwealth Games began in Scotland this week with great fanfare, shortly after the football World Cup came to an end in Brazil. Beyond the opening ceremonies and sporting glamour, the hosting of such events is always subject to economic...
JM Keynes’ General Theory was published seven years after the New York stock market crash of 1929. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was published six years after the financial crisis of 2008. Paul Samuelson, later a Nobel Prize winning economist and 21...
The recent news that Dad’s Army, the wartime comedy, is to be re-made as a feature film was greeted with a sceptical response in the letters pages of The Times. ‘Sir’, wrote one correspondent, ‘A revival of Dad’s Army will not work because no-one under...
Figures released today by the Trussell Trust show that almost 1 million food parcels – 913,138 – were handed out by its food bank network in the last year, compared to 347,000 the previous year; 51% of these were handed out to new clients....
The benefit cap statistics released last week provoked predictable reactions – finding 33,000 households were subject to the cap led the Daily Mail to label them the ‘families who had hit the benefits jackpot’. It was implied those affected by...
£1.4 trillion. That’s the staggering figure attributed to the level of household debt in the UK. The average student now leaves university after three years with £20,000 worth of debt – before they have even got their foot on the...
