Labour pains, by Alan Downey
ALAN DOWNEY | The starting gun for a public sector recession has been fired. It is now only a matter of time before we are faced with the deepest and most prolonged cuts in public expenditure that...
View ArticleWhitewash Wednesday, by Malcolm Prowle
We all await the results of the Comprehensive Spending Review. But there is a danger that it will be a fig leaf exercise in protecting certain activities for naked political reasons
View ArticleCSR: Insecure in the knowledge, by Colin Talbot
If there is one word that sums up yesterday's Comprehensive Spending Review it is insecurity. Today, Britain is a much less secure place than it was yesterday, nationally, socially and individually
View ArticleEntente frugal, by Judy Hirst
Necessity is the mother of invention. So, with revenue funding for local government cut by 26%, all sorts of things that were once unimaginable suddenly look eminently doable.
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