http://socialliberal.net Mon, 21 May 2012 19:43:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://socialliberal.net/2010/06/10/will-we-get-fairer-taxes-under-the-coalition/ http://socialliberal.net/2010/06/10/will-we-get-fairer-taxes-under-the-coalition/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:11:22 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=419 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the regressive alliance seeking to undermine the new coalition government at every turn.  If that seemed vague and abstract then, it certainly doesn’t any more. We should at least respect the Daily … Continue reading →

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]]> http://socialliberal.net/2010/02/11/the-tories-boneheaded-priorities/feed/ 2 http://socialliberal.net/2010/02/02/news-roundup-2/ http://socialliberal.net/2010/02/02/news-roundup-2/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:12:09 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=348 Climate change science has been dealt another blow by the revelation that University of East Anglia professor Phil Jones knowingly used flawed evidence in one of his studies.  How many more revelations like this will we have before the scientific … Continue reading →

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]]> http://socialliberal.net/2010/02/01/news-roundup/feed/ 0 http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/09/there-is-nothing-random-about-local-control-of-public-services/ http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/09/there-is-nothing-random-about-local-control-of-public-services/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:56:26 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=252 Both Sunder Katwala and Grant Shapps are quite wrong: not only is local variation a price more than worth paying for local control, but it would end the phenomena of postcode lotteries. “Postcode lottery” is a cliché, and a peculiarly … Continue reading →

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