The Financial Times: Time to shift the sterile fiscal policy debate
19 February 2012
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Deficit reduction or growth? Everyone wants both, but which should come first?
This is the question at the heart of the increasingly polarised debate on UK economic policy ahead of the Budget. But it’s the wrong question. We should first ask: what can be done to boost the economy without borrowing more money? The answer shows that strengthening deficit-cutting credibility and stimulating growth can go hand in hand. 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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