Economists are beating their heads against a brick wall. They’ve been telling the Tories for years that it’s foolish and dangerous to compare a nation’s economy to that of an ordinary household. But the Chancellor was at it again.
One of the biggest canards of the climate sceptic movement is that global warming stopped after 1998 and there has been no appreciable increase in global average temperatures this century.
As a very political sort of Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne’s decision to bring forward some £3bn of spending cuts to this financial year should be seen for its political rather than its fiscal significance. Though it still counts as “real money”, this £3bn has to be placed in the context of a total public spend of about £714bn. However, the chances are that, when Mr Osborne comes to present his Budget next month, it will come from a politically sensitive area, probably social security... Читать дальше...
Simon Stevens is an adroit performer and his speech to the NHS Confederation’s annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday confirmed him as a smart, versatile and imaginative chief executive of NHS England. More than a year into the job, his popularity shows no sign of waning, which itself is some kind of record.Whether he can maintain it over the next five years is a moot point. Gloom is de rigueur when discussing the NHS and, on the latest evidence, the gloom can only get deeper.
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The Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb has made the perfect case for the continued existence of his party. In highlighting the idiocies of the law on cannabis, Mr Lamb – fast carving himself out a reputation as a true liberal, set against the more socially conservative Tim Farron – has spoken plainly, as few do, of the need to consider legalisation. Why, he asks, criminalise young people for having a joint?
Political theatre doesn’t have to be angry new writing taking pot shots at David Cameron; a good story can always layer up meaning and resonance. So it is with the work of James Dacre, artistic director of Northampton’s Royal & Derngate theatres and a man busy this summer filling our stages with meditations on politics and power, the individual versus the system, the private versus the public.
Mo Farah’s training partner Galen Rupp has been doping since the age of 16, according to a Panorama documentary.