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Birmingham council approves biggest budget cuts in local authority history | Birmingham | The Guardian
2024-03-06T07:33:30+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/05/birmingham-city-council-approves-disastrous-budget-cuts
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NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS | Budget 2024 (spring) | The Guardian
2024-03-05T07:25:25+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/04/nhs-funding-faces-biggest-real-terms-cuts-since-1970s-warns-ifs
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Budget plans risk ‘second lost decade’ of living standards, Jeremy Hunt told | Budget 2024 (spring) | The Guardian
2024-03-04T06:45:39+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/04/budget-plans-risk-second-lost-decade-of-living-standards-jeremy-hunt-told
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Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian
2024-02-28T07:58:50+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/labour-credit-card-analogy-mendacious-tory
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The Left Wing of the Possible: The Case for Radical Pragmatism | Renewal
2024-02-27T19:30:28+00:00
https://renewal.org.uk/the-left-wing-of-the-possible-the-case-for-radical-pragmatism/
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Jeremy Hunt’s ‘dubious’ financial planning lacks credibility, says IFS | Budget 2024 (spring) | The Guardian
2024-02-27T07:43:04+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/jeremy-hunts-dubious-financial-planning-lacks-credibility-says-ifs
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UK public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn | Tax and spending | The Guardian
2024-02-26T08:44:11+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/26/uk-public-services-will-buckle-under-planned-spending-cuts-economists-warn
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The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it | Andy Beckett | The Guardian
2024-02-10T06:55:31+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/09/tories-fiscally-competent-labour-28bn-green-plan
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The Tories starved councils, thinking no one cared. Now they’re bust – and we care very much | Will Hutton | The Guardian
2024-02-04T08:31:50+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/04/tories-starved-councils-thinking-no-one-cared-now-bust-and-we-care-very-much
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As councils crumble, a new scapegoat has been found: the parents of disabled and vulnerable children | John Harris | The Guardian
2024-01-09T00:35:06+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/07/councils-scapegoat-parents-disabled-vulnerable-children-support
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Key Covid inquiry report creates election date headache for Sunak | Covid inquiry | The Guardian
2024-01-07T08:54:37+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/06/key-covid-inquiry-report-creates-election-date-headache-for-pm
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Suella Braverman was the pantomime villain, but don’t expect the story to change now she’s gone | Owen Jones | The Guardian
2023-11-14T11:45:44+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/14/suella-braverman-modern-tory-conservative-party-david-cameron-theresa-may
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David Cameron makes shock comeback in high-risk reshuffle | David Cameron | The Guardian
2023-11-13T21:33:54+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/13/reshuffle-that-brought-david-cameron-back-is-likely-to-be-last-before-election
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It’s the ‘great noticing’, as rightwingers accept that ‘Britain is broken’. But their fixes won’t make it any better | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
2023-09-18T09:20:41+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/17/rightwing-britain-broken-tories-national-decline
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How austerity (and ideology) broke Britain | Austerity | The Guardian
2023-09-10T11:53:31+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/10/how-austerity-and-ideology-broke-britain
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Labour, we know how terrible the Tories are. What we need from you is hope for the future | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
2023-09-07T13:53:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/labour-tories-government-keir-starmer-britain
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Councils going bust, schools crumbling, the NHS in crisis: the answer is more tax | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
2023-09-07T10:37:03+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/councils-schools-nhs-tax-labour-public-services-wealth-tax
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The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state | Rafael Behr | The Guardian
2023-09-06T14:54:26+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/06/tory-small-state-mission-has-failed-british-conservatives
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How Centrist ‘Frenemies’ Podcasts Turned Politics Into a Parlour Game | Novara Media
2023-07-29T09:59:17+00:00
https://novaramedia.com/2023/07/19/how-centrist-frenemies-podcasts-turned-politics-into-a-parlour-game/
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Dame Sally Davies apologises to Covid bereaved in emotional hearing | Covid inquiry | The Guardian
2023-06-20T18:12:23+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/20/dame-sally-davies-apologises-to-covid-bereaved-in-emotional-hearing
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Covid Inquiry: Mistake not to consider range of pandemics - David Cameron - BBC News
2023-06-19T14:41:23+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65950286
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George Osborne destroyed Britain’s safety net. The Covid inquiry should shame him into silence | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian
2023-06-03T08:43:52+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/01/covid-inquiry-economic-austerity-george-osborne?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Revealed: almost 1,000 rapes in prisons in England and Wales since 2010 | Prisons and probation | The Guardian
2023-05-13T21:34:15+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/13/revealed-almost-1000-rapes-in-prisons-in-england-and-wales-since-2010
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(1) Chartbook 205: Does Ukraine's war economy have a new platform in 2023?
2023-04-25T07:37:01+00:00
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-205-does-ukraines-war-economy
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Why Labour’s ‘law and order’ tribute act feels hollow and overblown | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
2023-04-10T10:07:15+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/10/labour-law-and-order-england-wales-justice-system-crime
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Inflation, Interest Rates & House Prices - YouTube
2023-04-09T08:29:40+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaiTZKlCj4
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In the post-Brexit wreckage, just one Tory strategy remains: the theatre of cruelty | John Harris | The Guardian
2023-04-03T07:03:43+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/02/post-brexit-wreckage-one-tory-strategy-theatre-of-cruelty
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Discrimination, funding, public trust: what Casey says about the Met police | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
2023-03-21T09:42:36+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/discrimination-funding-public-trust-what-casey-says-about-the-met-police
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Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
2023-03-21T09:37:38+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report
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Top police chief says Met has no ‘God-given right’ to exist without public trust | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
2023-03-20T07:00:28+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/20/top-police-chief-martin-hewitt-met-has-no-god-given-right-to-exist-without-public-trust
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British voters are ready for a green, game-changing budget. What they’ll get is more austerity | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
2023-03-09T18:37:50+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/09/british-voters-green-budget-austerity-labour-recovery-plan
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James Butler · This Concerns Everyone: Crisis in Care · LRB 2 March 2023
2023-02-22T19:56:23+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n05/james-butler/this-concerns-everyone
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A government is not a household | New Economics Foundation
2023-02-02T19:25:40+00:00
https://neweconomics.org/2018/10/a-government-is-not-a-household
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Don’t keep calm and carry on: how Britain got a furious new attitude | Conservatives | The Guardian
2023-01-24T17:14:59+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/24/dont-keep-calm-and-carry-on-how-britain-got-a-furious-new-attitude
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Brexit is just one of the three Tory errors that have brought Britain to its knees | William Keegan | The Guardian
2023-01-08T17:43:08+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/08/brexit-is-just-one-of-the-three-tory-errors-that-have-brought-britain-to-its-knees
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Ros Atkins on… Funding and the NHS crisis - BBC News
2023-01-07T07:16:02+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-64180605
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The NHS crisis - decades in the making - BBC News
2023-01-07T07:09:55+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64190440
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Teachers and social workers suffer most from ‘lost decade’ for pay growth in UK | Education | The Guardian
2022-12-21T08:57:12+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/21/teachers-and-social-workers-suffer-most-from-lost-decade-for-pay-growth-in-uk
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Decade of neglect means NHS unable to tackle care backlog, report says | NHS | The Guardian
2022-12-13T07:14:15+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/12/decade-of-neglect-means-nhs-unable-to-tackle-care-backlog-report-says
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A stark lesson for Keir Starmer from the budget: the Tories won’t just lose, you have to beat them | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
2022-11-19T11:21:44+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/18/economic-tory-jeremy-hunt-keir-starmer-autumn-statement
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Keir Starmer accepts £55bn 'black hole' calculation - BBC News
2022-11-18T20:14:35+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63681941
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Biggest hit to living standards on record as Hunt lays out autumn statement | Autumn statement 2022 | The Guardian
2022-11-18T07:01:52+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/17/biggest-hit-to-living-standards-on-record-as-jeremy-hunt-lays-out-autumn-statement
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Hunt delays pain of austerity package to give Tories a chance | Autumn statement 2022 | The Guardian
2022-11-17T18:42:25+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/17/hunt-delays-pain-of-austerity-package-to-give-tories-a-chance
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The Tories’ ‘fiscal black hole’ is a statistical fiction – let’s have a reality check | James Meadway | The Guardian
2022-11-17T06:38:35+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/17/tories-fiscal-black-hole-statistical-fiction-spending-tax
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Take care with energy use but support will continue, says Sunak | Energy bills | The Guardian
2022-11-15T13:52:32+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/nov/15/take-care-energy-use-support-continue-rishi-sunak
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Jeremy Hunt’s austerity budget: necessity or political choice? | Economics | The Guardian
2022-11-15T07:38:33+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/15/jeremy-hunts-austerity-budget-necessity-or-political-choice
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Brexit a major cause of UK’s return to austerity, says senior economist | Brexit | The Guardian
2022-11-14T15:51:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/14/brexit-a-major-cause-of-uks-return-to-austerity-says-senior-economist
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Don’t be taken in by that £50bn ‘fiscal black hole’. It’s just a dodgy Tory metaphor | Sonia Sodha | The Guardian
2022-11-14T07:56:50+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/13/dont-be-taken-in-by-50bn-fiscal-hole-dodgy-tory-metaphor
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Autumn Statement: Jeremy Hunt plans billions in spending cuts - BBC News
2022-11-13T08:50:36+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63599465
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Discipline the poor, protect the rich – it’s the same old Tories, same old class war | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian
2022-11-10T07:31:41+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/10/poor-rich-tories-brexit-austerity-cameron-osborne-sunak
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Economists question 'black hole' in UK finances - BBC News
2022-11-10T07:02:14+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63573989
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The Dangerous Fiction of the "Fiscal Black Hole" • The Progressive Economy Forum
2022-11-10T07:01:05+00:00
https://progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications/the-dangerous-fiction-of-the-fiscal-black-hole/
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Is the IMF fit for purpose? | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | The Guardian
2022-11-08T08:18:31+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/01/is-the-imf-fit-for-purpose
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The UK economy is about to be thrown into a black hole – by its own government | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
2022-11-02T20:52:40+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/02/the-uk-economy-is-about-to-be-thrown-into-a-black-hole-by-its-own-government
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Rishi Sunak preparing years of tax rises to plug £50bn fiscal black hole | Economic policy | The Guardian
2022-11-01T07:22:38+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/31/rishi-sunak-preparing-years-of-tax-rises-to-plug-50bn-fiscal-black-hole
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Disastrous cuts loom, but the Tories have a secret weapon – our weary fatalism | John Harris | The Guardian
2022-10-30T20:38:02+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/30/cuts-tories-secret-weapon-fatalism-rishi-sunak
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Rishi Sunak is the best choice the Tories could have made – but Labour can still beat him | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
2022-10-28T23:49:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/28/rishi-sunak-tories-labour-keir-starmer-mordaunt-johnson
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How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic
2022-10-26T11:42:32+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/
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The very last thing the UK needs is more ‘grownup’ politics. That’s what got us into this mess | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
2022-10-25T06:30:27+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/24/conservative-leadership-grownup-politics-poverty
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If the Tory party brings back Boris Johnson, it really will be fit only for a straitjacket | Andrew Rawnsley | The Guardian
2022-10-23T13:13:05+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/23/if-tory-party-brings-back-boris-johnson-fit-only-for-straitjacket
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Austerity, Brexit and 44 days in purgatory: the key stages of Tory rule | Conservatives | The Guardian
2022-10-22T20:26:20+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/22/austerity-brexit-and-44-days-in-purgatory-the-key-stages-of-tory-rule
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James Butler | Short Termism · LRB 21 October 2022
2022-10-22T17:07:40+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/october/short-termism
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Generation Left Rejected History. Does It Have a Future? | Novara Media
2022-10-20T13:52:09+00:00
https://novaramedia.com/2022/10/17/generation-left-rejected-history-does-it-have-a-future/
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Liz Truss Screwed Up When She Machine-Gunned Tory Voters | Novara Media
2022-10-20T13:28:40+00:00
https://novaramedia.com/2022/10/20/liz-truss-screwed-up-when-she-machine-gunned-tory-voters/
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In Britain today it seems your suffering only counts if you have a mortgage | William Davies | The Guardian
2022-10-20T07:13:52+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/19/britain-suffering-mortgage-homeowners-westminster
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James Meadway: Jeremy Hunt’s U-turns are no cause for celebration | openDemocracy
2022-10-18T19:49:55+00:00
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/james-meadway-jeremy-hunt-tax-cuts-mini-budget-analysis/
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I'll lead Tories into next election, says embattled Liz Truss - BBC News
2022-10-18T06:23:41+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63293891
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Jeremy Hunt shreds Truss’s economic plans in astounding U-turn on tax | Liz Truss | The Guardian
2022-10-17T20:23:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/17/new-chancellor-shreds-pms-economic-plans-in-unprecedented-u-turn
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Jeremy Hunt’s economic plan turns the clock back to austerity | Economics | The Guardian
2022-10-17T13:47:30+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/17/jeremy-hunt-economic-plan-austerity-recession
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Health and teaching unions aghast at Jeremy Hunt’s new era of Tory austerity | Austerity | The Guardian
2022-10-15T21:32:58+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/15/health-teaching-unions-jeremy-hunt-tory-austerity
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