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Category Archives: Economics
Cutting the cost of living: simplifying energy tariffs
Last autumn the Prime Minister promised to take action to cut through the bewildering number of energy tariffs that we were left with by the last Labour Government and to put every consumer on the cheapest tariff available to them. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Competition, Cost of Living, Delivery, Energy, Free markets, Vested interests
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Rights are not commodities
As the Lords’ votes on “shares for rights” for the last time, Tom Morrison-Bell argues that the proposal is immoral. The great Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore wrote in 1917 that “the moral man, the complete man, is more and more … Continue reading
The ‘paying for content’ decision
The last decade has been golden for those of us who gorge on information. News, comment, entertainment – thanks to the internet there is a unlimited supply, almost all of which is free. The copious amounts of available distractions allows … Continue reading
If council tax goes up, will voters blame local or central government?
Next week, Council Tax Benefit (CTB) is being reformed. It means that more people will pay more tax – but it’s unclear who’s going to be blamed. At the moment, CTB is a single system administered from the DWP. From … Continue reading
Ronseal Politics: The macro needs to be connected to the micro
An old criticism of Gordon Brown was that while he knew what price a barrel of oil was being traded at he was unaware of the price of petrol at the pump. The implication being, while Brown was economically intelligent … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Budget 2013, communications, Economics strategy, messaging, Ronseal Politics
9 Comments