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Tag Archives: blog round up
May 18 2012
Conservatism in crisis, sickies in the public sector and a Miliband masterstroke: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet The Spectator’s Coffee House blog reveals evidence to show that the public doesn’t want the government to drop Lords reform or gay marriage. Ballots and Bullets note the continuation of the Tory collapse in the polls, as Stumbling and … Continue reading
Posted by: May 18, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, Conservatives, uk government, uk politics, weekly round up
May 11 2012
Tractors, coups and ugly habits: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Mark Hellowell at Public Finance discusses the coalition’s state of denial over the economy and questions the logic of Clegg’s stated ‘moral duty’ to the next generation. Steven Baxter at the New Statesman argues that the selective use of … Continue reading
Posted by: May 11, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, weekly round up
May 4 2012
Throwing economic caution to the wind, predicting elections based on football matches and battling for blue collar Britain: Top 5 (or 6) blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Chris Prosser at Politics in Spires investigates whether local elections predict general elections (although Roger Mortimore of Ipsos MORI has an altogether different tactic of linking election results to football matches). William Davies at OurKingdom writes that the government should throw caution to the wind in devising … Continue reading
Posted by: May 4, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, weekly round up
Apr 6 2012
Libertarianism for the rich, a cost-benefit analysis of the Falklands & plunging government approval ratings: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Simon Wren-Lewis at Mainly Macro discusses the Falklands conflict in cost-benefit terms. Patricia Kaszynska at The Staggers argues that its libertarianism for the rich, paternalism for the rest. The FT’s Westminster Blog wonders if the government’s new ‘right to buy’ … Continue reading
Posted by: April 6, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, uk politics, weekly round up
Mar 24 2012
Osborne neglects the scorecards, speaking economic sense and a modern enclosure movement: Top 5 blogs you may have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Tim Harford assumes the role of the Chancellor and tries to speak some economic sense, arguing for ‘short-term stimulus, long-term fiscal consolidation, and reform aiming at a sane system of taxation’. Damian McBride explains how the budget ‘scorecard’ process … Continue reading
Posted by: March 24, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, budget, uk government, uk politics
Mar 17 2012
Bashing Goldman Sachs, Tories voting for Obama and poverty in employment: Top 5 blogs you may have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Flipchart Fairy Tales weighs in on this week’s story of the former Goldman Sachs banker who trashed his former employer in the pages of the New York Times. The blog notes that not even banks go from nice to … Continue reading
Posted by: March 17, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, uk politics
Mar 10 2012
Labour are doorstepping naked, ‘public schoolboy’ Cameron is suffering and the government isn’t loved by anyone: political blog round up for 3 – 9 March
Leave a commentTweet Cheryl Brumley, Danielle Moran and Joel Suss round up the week in political blogging Health reform The Lib Dems could be about to kick up a storm over the Health and Social Care Bill, warns the Coffee House. Liberal Conspiracy wonders why Lansley … Continue reading
Posted by: March 10, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, uk government, uk politics, weekly round up
Mar 3 2012
Cameron horses around, the rich are reminded why they bother to work, and the Pret-a-Manger Factor: political blog round up for 25 February – 2 March
Leave a commentTweet Cheryl Brumley, Danielle Moran and Joel Suss round up the week in political blogging The parties The FT’s Westminster blog thinks that Cameron’s lack of strategy is beginning to show and The Tory Diary’s Paul Goodman writes that the Conservatives must learn to … Continue reading
Posted by: March 3, 2012
Tagged with: blog round up, blogs, David Cameron, politics, UK, uk government, uk politics
