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Stephen Pollard: No Worries
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Walk away whistling
The always thought-provoking Tim Worstall asks this question, to which we all know the answer:
Absolutely every commentator even vaguely left of centre says that
the fiscal contraction (ie, the combination of spending cuts and tax
rises) is going to devastate the economy. We’re going to get a double
dip recession, unemployment will go over 4 million etc.
Let us imagine that this doesn’t happen: will we then have put to
bed the idea that only government spending can get us out of such
recessions?
Or if, in two or three years time, this hasn’t...
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Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE PC (25 March 1932 – 23 June 2010)
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The following is an amended post I wrote on The Guardian on the 22nd June 2010, and before I heard the news of the death of Peter Walker.
Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE PC (25 March 1932 – 23 June 2010)
I was saddened to read the news of the death of Peter Walker, I considered him to be one of the truly decent people of British Conservatism, even if I disagreed with some of his views:
In my youth I was a Labour Party Young Socialist member, I worked on...
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Open season in the NHS
Tim Montgomerie, the editor of the ConservativeHome.com blog has suggested that the NHS budget should lose its ring-fenced status; I think he is fundamentally wrong, and is completely mistaken in this proposal, wrong about the nature of the NHS and wrong about the rationale for its very existence, I also think that similar suggestions come from a dark cavernous recess of highly dubious instrumental reason and fetid dogma, rather than being the result of any well thought out, coherent, cohesive and humane rationale. Of course, I could be wrong. This is speculation and opinion after all. Occasionally, some things are...
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Liberals, who'd trust 'em?
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Comment on: George Osborne defends tax gamble as prospective chancellors clash live
MartynInEurope 30 Mar 10, 11:27am
Cable is a populist - do the liberals have any policies that they are prepared to stick with, even if it means less votes? Anyway, at least people should know where Darling and Osborne are coming from.
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In relations between Liberals and Tories would you advise the use of protection?
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I dont personally...
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So, 21st Century Enlightenment, is it?
In the UK, Matthew Taylor of the Royal Society of Artists has come up with a brand new big idea, which is being touted as a call for calling for a "21st-century Enlightenment". This was my response to an article by Madeleine Bunting (guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 June 2010 21.00 BST), Comment is free - Hail the 21st-century Enlightenment - Ideas don't come much bigger. We need to live very differently, argues a bold new text. And that calls for nothing less than a revolution of the mind.
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UK Financial Sector versus Manufacturing Sector: It's not a game you know
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The article, written by Jonathan Todd, and published on Saturday 12 June 2010, was titled "No need to choose between finance and manufacturing" with the argument "Broad-brush commitments to rebalance our economy are an incomplete response to our economic growth challenge". The following text was essentially my response.
Let’s be clear about this, the suggestion that a sector of a business should contribute a larger percent to the overall business does not, in any capitalist sense, mean necessarily that you will deliberately diminish the net contribution of other sectors, and even large...
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Liberty
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Julio Anguita 19 de mayo de 2010
Recopilación de las intervenciones de Julio Anguita, ex coordinador general de Izquierda Unida y ex alcalde de Córdoba, en el programa 59 Segundos de Televisión Española el día 19 de mayo de 2010.
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