October 27, 2010 – 9:17 am
The Today programme this morning did a piece on alcohol consumption. The Secretary of State for Health is, reportedly, going to be using ‘nudge’ techniques in an attempt to tackle the UK’s drinking culture. Statistics abound on the scale of the problem, with billions of pounds being spent on coping with the direct health consequences, [...]
October 20, 2010 – 6:22 pm
Watching the Chancellor today delivering the results of his deliberations on the future of government spending was, I found, a complex experience. At one level, the whole thing was a piece of political theatre, his rhetoric configured almost entirely by the setting. It was impossible, for example, for him simply to tell us which budgets [...]