Anthony Painter

2.5 million new jobs by 2015? Unlikely

The Guardian’s headline about the jobs that will be des [...]

The real difference good community institutions make

Forgive the personal note to this blog post but yesterd [...]

What can Labour learn from England’s dismal world cup performance?

I couldn’t resist linking England and Labour’s predicam [...]

Just how liberal is it to harm the well-being of the most disadvantaged?

by Eugene Grant

Few have summed up the somewhat unea [...]

Liberal Democrats- arguing the toss and ignoring real people.

The ConDem assault on the language is remarkable thing [...]

A Thatcherite Budget? No. Even worse.

This Budget was far more brutal than most feared. It wa [...]

An unremarked absolute horror from the Budget.

Who’d be a single mother? Soon after Labour got into of [...]

Budget emergency- how to spot a ‘good cut’ from a ‘bad cut’?

UK growth is anemic. The public finances are weak and s [...]

Is this a Coalition anymore?

Yesterday was the day that the Coalition became a major [...]

The Obama presidency- how could it go so wrong?

So that’s it. I was wrong. We were wrong. America was w [...]