Tag: austerity
Tories put politics first on economy
Dennis Leech says Labour needs to do more than promise to balance the books
Debt myths
Dennis Leech says Labour has to ditch the pursuit of balanced budgets or become irrelevant
The great Covid-19 swindle
Tom Miller says austerity continues for councils
Paying for the pandemic – war lessons for Labour
Dennis Leech argues that when it comes to paying for the pandemic, Labour should learn the lessons of the two world wars: austerity is not sound economics for recovery
Tories in budget U-turn
Dennis Leech sees the partial ditching of austerity as the sign of a new type of Tory government and an indication Labour needs to change tack
Local government on the brink
Duncan Bowie explains how eight years of an austerity straitjacket has pushed many councils to the verge of collapse. But does Labour have an...
It’s crunch time for local Labour
Tom Miller on holes in the dented shield
Local government is looking increasingly threadbare in the face of austerity. The trend adopted by ‘localist’ Conservatives has been to cut and...
“On your bike”
Amy Edwards sees May's Tories cutting everything, even that which might spite their own face
In 1981, Norman Tebbit infamously ordered Britain's disenchanted working class...
Prem Sikka on shrinking the state
Austerity can only be ended by a shift in political philosophy argues Prem Sikka
Within minutes of the Chancellor delivering his autumn statement, The Daily...
The undeserving poor
Without tough opposition to Osborne’s welfare cuts Labour risks becoming an irrelevance, says John Percival
Let Greece breathe
In seeking an end to austerity Greece’s left government is fighting for all Europe says Marina Prentoulis
The victory of Syriza on 25 January was...