BBC Radio 4: Osborne's Choice
22 February 2012
The Director of the Social Market Foundation, Ian Mulheirn, talks about the foundation's latest paper, 'Osborne's Choice: combining fiscal credibility and growth'. Read more
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2012
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May
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April
- The Times - Letter on growth by Robert Shiller and Ian Mulheirn
- Inside Housing - Chink of light
- The Guardian - Double-dip recession: what should George Osborne do?
- The Guardian - Double-dip recession affords George Osborne no escape from this reality
- Nursery World - Labour launches childcare commission
- The Financial Times: Morrison makes youth job creation pledge
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March
- The Financial Times: Westminster slow to confront ‘nanny tax’
- City AM: Good tax cuts drowned out by a series of silly errors
- The Financial Times: Osborne raises prospect of more welfare cuts
- The Spectator Blog: Twelve points about the Budget
- The Independent: Roads to riches – or highways to hell?
- Channel 4 News: Options for improving Britain's roads
- MoneyMarketing: Thinktank slams 'dubious' 50p arguments
- BBC: Blog: Roads Plc? Why privatisation might look tempting.
- BBC: Can German business ideas revive the UK economy?
- The Times: Is it time to cut the fuel allowance?
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February
- BBC: Panorama: The Cost of Raising Britain
- The Financial Times: Boost for Britain
- BBC Radio 4: Osborne's Choice
- The Telegraph: Strip pensioners of free bus passes, says think tank
- The Financial Times: Time to shift the sterile fiscal policy debate
- Daily Mail: Ministers consider plan for cheap £10,000 childcare loans to help struggling parents
- The Financial Times: Treasury ponders childcare loans for parents
- BBC: Childcare: Government 'should help parents spread cost'
- The Guardian: Childcare loans scheme proposed by thinktank
- The Telegraph: Childcare loans could help parents go to work and boost tax revenues
- BBC Radio 4: Would a childcare loan system work?
- The Times: The nanny state: £10,000 loans to ease strain of paying for childcare
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January
- New Statesman: The Tories think they can flush out Ed's inner red
- Lovemoney.com: Childcare costs pushing parents into debt
- The Guardian: Fund manager Fidelity attacks executive pay and bonus bonanza
- Children and Young People Now: In depth the accessibility of quality childcare in focus
- Civil Society: Nesta director: Social investment 'too focused' on social impact bonds
- Deadline news: Scotland “left behind” on childcare
- LBC
- New Statesman: Will the Work Programme work?
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2011
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December
- Guardian Politics Blog
- Left Foot Forward: Unemployment: How Cameron and Clegg are letting the next generation down
- Nursery World: Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn
- BBC Radio Berkshire
- The Economist: Nice work if you can find it
- Left Foot Forward: George Osborne is the downgraded chancellor of a deflationary government
- The Daily Telegraph: In their rush to save the economy, politicians forget about the people, and the gulf widens between rich and poor
- LBC
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November
- The Financial Times: Notion of free financial services is a harmful myth
- The Times: Low-paid workers will suffer cuts to help the jobless
- The Guardian: Osborne's £5bn investment boost will hit poorest families
- CityWire: Autumn Statement: pensioners win, public sector workers lose
- New Statesman blog: The political problem of parents priced out of work
- Nursery World: Low-income families to be hit by rising childcare costs
- Children and Young People Now: Low-income families face £600 hike in annual childcare bill by 2015
- BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour
- Daily Mirror: Tory cuts will add up to £900 to annual childcare bill, experts warn
- The Daily Telegraph: Families face £1,400 a year hike in childcare costs
- Children and Young People Now: Call for more childcare support for parents in the capital
- FT Adviser: jisa backlash
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October
- Money Marketing: Junior Isas will only benefit wealthy
- The Guardian: There's little charity in the work programme
- The Daily Telegraph: Greg Hands levies 'swizz' jibe at Barclays
- Children and Young People Now: Extra £300m announced to help low-income families with childcare
- Nursery World: Ministers confirm childcare support for part-time workers in plans for universal credit
- The Guardian: Childcare money: robbing Paul to pay Paul?
- The Financial Times: £300m boost to childcare benefit
- Relocate: UK Competitiveness 'will depend on people's skills', cabinet member claims
- Times Higher Education: Private Contracts: 'EU Rules no longer apply'
- Inside Housing: Minister 'not for turning' on planning reforms
- Huffington Post: If you want to boost the economy, don't knock immigration
- People Management: Bolstering skills vital to UK competitiveness, says Letwin
- The Guardian: Where did the Chancellor find his magic money?
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September
- Times Higher Education: Labour's plan to cap tuition fees may be a 'graduate tax'
- ACCA: PFI 'privatising the profit; nationalising the debt - Margaret Hodge
- The Independent: FSA says no to calls for it to pre-approve products
- New Model Adviser: FSA Shelves Plans to Pre-Approve Products
- Politics Home: PFI 'too expensive', says Hodge
- Children and Young People Now: Payment-by-results 'the only game in town' for early intervention
- Politics Home: Welfare reform 'must succeed'
- Journal Live: Unrealistic targets set for flagship job scheme
- The Guardian: Public finance - how to spend it
- Institute for Government: Risky Business
- Politics Home: Investing in the green economy
- BBC: The Report
- Comment is free, Liam Byrne: To solve unemployment, work must pay
- The Financial Times: Grayling warns back-to-work providers
- The Financial Times: Jobless face English lessons order
- Huffington Post, Stephen Timms: Government Must Tackle Unemployment After Number of Jobless Women Hits Record High
- Public Finance: Nihilists, nimbys and national planning
- Politics Home: Welfare-to-work, skills and the NEET challenge
- The Independent: Pension pots for top company bosses soar to record levels
- Inside Housing: Landlords lose faith in £5bn work programme
- LocalGovernment.co.uk: The social failure highlighted by August's riots
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August
- Institute for Government: Financing Efficiency
- Inside Housing: £5b work programme 'in jeopardy'
- The Financial Times: Coalition work scheme raises doubts
- BBC: Government 'too optimistic' on work scheme
- Govtoday: Will the programme work?
- Daily Star: Work plan close to collapse
- CivilSociety.co.uk: Government's back to work programme at risk of financial collapse, says think-tank
- Daily Mirror: Government's Work Programme to help jobless 'could go bust'
- Third Sector: Work Programme targets are 'unreachable' says think-tank
- People Management: Nine in ten Work Programme providers 'will miss targets'
- Public Service: Back to work scheme "faces collapse"
- Public Finance, Ian Mulheirn: Will the Work Programme work?
- Liberal Conspiracy: Governent's Work Programme at risk of collapse, say experts
- The Financial Times: Ambitious targets threaten flagship jobs scheme
- The Financial Times: Ministers plan removal of rioters’ benefits
- Powerline: Death Throes of the Welfare State
- The Financial Times: Increase in disability claims, figures show
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