Showing posts with label public spending cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public spending cuts. Show all posts
11 February 2012

Why is a Local Authority Not Like a Business?

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It is the budget-setting season and in local authority debating chambers across the land administrations are trying their darndest to squeez...
28 January 2012

Squandering the Wealth of Life

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In the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Bank of England staff attempted to estimate the financial costs to the UK economy. ...
28 November 2011

A Matter of Life and Debt

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There has always been something about the nature of pension calculations that is faintly unsavoury and few roles in life can be as unattract...
17 November 2011

Rebalancing, What Rebalancing?

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I write this post as a councillor in the local authority that faced the largest cut in its central government funding in the current funding...
10 November 2011

McKinsey: The Jesuits of Capitalism

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Had you been wondering why, for the past decade or so, all developments in the health sector and most developments in the public sector gene...
10 October 2011

Public Sector Jobs Carnage

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Job losses in the public sector are happening much more rapidly than predicted, which will have serious knock-on effects in terms of reducin...
30 April 2011

The Future of Universities: A Rhetorical Question?

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The higher education sector is giving clear evidence that the Tories are responding to their own rhetoric rather than the reality of the way...
16 March 2011

What Happened to the Icelandic Banks?

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I have been following the story of Iceland on this blog for some time. Now an academic paper has emerged which tells in a better referenced ...
22 December 2010

Higher Education Accountability

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As the debates over student fees have ebbed and flowed I have missed once again the skills of the accountant. What nobody has explained adeq...
25 November 2010

The Happiness Crusade

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The demonstration I was on yesterday in Cardiff was so much fun it went on all night. If you are a tweeter you can support the protest by se...
18 October 2010

Limiting Educational Aspiration

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The blizzard of policy announcements since May has been quite bewildering. Journalists and academics are reeling at the pace of change, and ...
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13 September 2010

Living Within Our Means

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Green Party conference is still in full swing at the Birmingham Conservatoire. I was lucky that the two motions I had an interest in - one o...
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10 August 2010

Media Blind Side

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Aside from Mickey Mouse studies, which was surely an urban myth, the most reviled course available to our young people is media studies, whi...
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5 August 2010

Laughing all the way . . .

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So the banks are in profit again, and this is apparently a cause for celebration. The number of questions being begged by the mainstream med...
15 July 2010

Chick and Pettifor Call to Reverse UK Spending Cuts

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This fairly standard Keynsian call for counter-cyclical public spending to avoid a self-reinforcing depressionary spiral is interesting more...
5 July 2010

Shock till you Drop

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How many of your friends have told you recently that they feel lucky to still be in work? This is the sign of somebody who has already given...
23 June 2010

Lord High Executioner Targets People and Planet

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It's 18 years since Peter Lilley performed his widely ridiculed parody of the 'little list' song from The Mikado at the Tory par...
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21 June 2010

Equitable Life

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In so many of the areas that are now the source of public debate, the money system is being used to conceal a sleight of hand that transfers...
7 June 2010

A Brief Word, Mr Cameron

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The class war has been launched, and not by the Labour Party. Cameron's speech today sets the scene for a principled stand in favour of ...
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12 May 2010

Plus ca change . . .

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When British people voted for change last Thursday, it seems to me that two events of the past year were motivating them: the expenses scand...
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