Aug
27
What Britain can’t learn from The Wire
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There’s a lively debate in the blogosphere, and particularly the bloggers circle, following Chris Grayling’s observations about similarities between inner cities in Britain and the Baltimore depicted in The Wire. Matthew Taylor questions what the Tories make of the corruption in local government given that in the UK, they run most town halls (though not [...]
Jun
24
Investment v Cuts has never worked
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For weeks now it’s looked like the next election will be fought on familiar lines: Labour investment versus Tory cuts. Today David Cameron did a pretty good job of chipping away at Gordon Brown‘s dividing line. That’s no bad thing for the Labour Party. Gordon Brown may want to fight the next election on the [...]
Apr
27
David Cameron is a hypocrite
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I’m angry at David Cameron’s hypocrisy. This weekend, at a Conservative party conference, he attacked high earners in the public sector. Cameron singled out, by name, an apparently random list of the 34th highest earner, Ed Richards, the chief executive of Ofcom (£400,000 per annum) and the senior executives at British Waterways, Robin Evans (67th), [...]