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Follow Nick on TwitterNick Pearce is the Director of IPPR, having rejoined the institute in 2010 after serving as Head of the Policy Unit at No 10. An author and regular commentator on public policy in broadcast and print media, Nick writes on a wide range of issues, from social justice, public service reform and identity politics to the future of social democracy.
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In his speech to the Conservative party conference, chancellor George Osborne has said that it is fanciful to believe that the ‘wallets of the rich’ can bear the burden of fiscal consolidation alone. But he has also said that the … Continue reading
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David Cameron today exhorts us to pay off our debts. Were any economists involved in drafting the speech?
Today Vince Cable is out and about burnishing the egalitarian credentials of the Liberal Democrats at their conference, with proposals to limit increases in executive pay coming fast on the heels of the Keynesian stimulus prospectus he set out in … Continue reading
The latest edition of the London Review of Books has a nice essay by Hal Foster on the last seminar Derrida gave before he died in 2004, on ‘the Beast and the Sovereign’. At least in part – and with Derrida … Continue reading
I am at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool today, debating whether the Coalition will last.
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