Countries need a balance of self-criticism and self-confidence. People are often called on to act for a greater good. But if Britain is shameful, why bother?
The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.
For a country deep in debt, lofty thoughts are not enough to justify such huge numbers of students doing things that don’t help them economically,
Economically and politically, Beijing takes advantage of asymmetric openness: we’re open to them, but they are not to us.
The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t really believe in free or fair markets and has a strategy based on domination, not fair competition.
Hopefully it will be crisis averted, and we’ll have a bit more time to fix the hole. But sooner or later, difficult choices on tax and spending are coming.
We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.
After crushing Labour last year, it might be tempting to rest on our laurels. But we need to act now to keep the extreme left locked out of Number 10.
Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.
This imbalance is driven by the core science budget: the Research Councils (which fund projects) and Quality Related “QR” funding, which universities allocate.
Collecting statistics on people’s self-identified racial background is one thing. Having ringfenced funding for one racial group is quite another.
Can have a bold enough economic policy that people in these newly gained seats can see the difference in five years’ time?
The campaign feels better run, including online. People massively prefer Boris Johnson to Corbyn. The question is whether it is enough
The debt to GDP ratio will now surely soar past the 100 per cent mark in the next couple of years into what used to be seen as banana republic territory.