Tag Archives: Comprehensive Spending Review

The CSR and the revenge of the South

Governing is no mere technical matter. It involves making choices of priorities and resource allocation and these are driven by values. So governing is intrinsically political. One cannot complain therefore that this government is being “political”. All governments are political. The point is to recognise what that politics is so that the differences between technocratic option-taking and ideological interventions can be surfaced. Read more »

Spending review got it radically wrong

Well, at least it was radical. The Comprehensive Spending Review, that is. Unthought through, inadequately evidenced and bereft of any notion of actions having consequences. But it was radical. Read more »

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