Tag Archives: north-south divide

The CSR and the revenge of the South

By , Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 16 Comments

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 »

The right takes its gloves off

By , Sunday, 12 September 2010, 3 Comments

With the news that the Treasury is seeking to reduce welfare spending by a further £4 billion in addition to the £11 billion already trailed, it’s clear that the ‘revolution from the Right’ has entered a new phase. Read more »

Progressive insanity

By , Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 3 Comments

I do wish the Government would stop trying to make our flesh crawl with all this panic around the deficit.

The angst they’re emitting is stirring no-one except the ratings agencies – and not in a good way. They need to calm down and think before emoting – unless the point of it all is not to deal with the problem so much as to rubbish their predecessors.

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