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Tag Archives: blogs
Jun 29 2012
Debating academic rigour, hunting the dude, and hurling abuse at Gordon Brown: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling wonders what’s the use of academic rigour when empirical evidence is routinely ignored in policy making. Damian McBride recalls the day five years ago that Gordon Brown became Prime Minister – and had abuse hurled at him by … Continue reading
Posted by: June 29, 2012
Tagged with: blogs, capitalism, Gordon Brown, local government, policy making, weekly round up
Jun 22 2012
Old civil service wine, cancerous tax avoidance and Ed’s unnecessary apology: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Jonathan Portes at Not the Treasury View argues that Ed Miliband shouldn’t apologise for making the right decision on Eastern European migration. Chris Cook on the FT data blog discusses Michael Gove’s proposals to reintroduce a two tier O-Level … Continue reading
Posted by: June 22, 2012
Tagged with: blogs, Ed Miliband, Education, Euro 2012, immigration, tax avoidance, UK economy, weekly 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 28 2012
Spads running amok, Murdoch looking tired and Cameron’s ‘remarkable’ achievement: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet When Ministers and Spads run amok: Colin Talbot at Whitehall Watch argues that the Jeremy Hunt revelations again raise the issue of civil service reform. John Gapper at the FT’s Business blog notes that Rupert Murdoch was tired and rambling when he … Continue reading
Posted by: April 28, 2012
Tagged with: blogs, weekly round up
Apr 20 2012
Boris the optimist, dumbed down politicians and the tolerable cost of austerity: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet A Dragon’s Best Friend wonders if the media has helped to dumb down our politicians. Stumbling and Mumbling muses on the tolerable cost of austerity. Charles Grant at Social Europe considers whether Britain is on its way out of Europe. The … Continue reading
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: 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
