Central Government Spending: where your money really goes
As part of the Coalition’s transparency agenda, the Government committed to make available all central government spending over £25,000 from November 2010. Well, today’s the day! Along with a number of...
View ArticleUK Government open data comes of age
It felt especially wonderful last week to be in the digital data game. On Friday the UK government released a mound of its spending data – every item (nearly 200,000 of them) of spending over £25,000...
View ArticleIreland: deflation, debt and no growth
Unless you live in the proverbial hole in the ground you will know that Ireland has finally agreed to a IMF and Euro area bail out that it desperately needed. But how did the Celtic tiger end up in...
View ArticleOldham by-election and the fall of the Lib Dems
Today’s Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election represents the first real chance to assess the extent of the current coalition’s unpopularity. Labour’s victory in this seat in 2010, which has now been...
View ArticleThe Revolt of the Pension-class
Questions from pensioners dominated a meeting about inflation measures held at the Royal Statistical Society on Tuesday. The rise in inflation to nearly 5%, when December’s figures were released last...
View ArticleDeaths from malnutrition – the missing ONS data
The Daily Mail asked the ONS for some data on deaths of the elderly from malnutrition, dehydration and superbugs. The figures were truly shocking and written up accordingly. Unfortunately, the ONS...
View ArticleThe Budget for Growth
Tomorrow’s budget could not come at a more delicate time for the UK economy. Unemployment remains persistently high and today’s inflation figures have revealed an annual increase in the CPI of 4.4% in...
View ArticleBudget Preview: Public Sector Finances
The Budget is the time to take stock of the health of public sector finances. The Chancellor believes that the situation is a fairly healthy one. “We have taken Britain out of the fiscal danger zone....
View ArticlePolicy derailed again in India
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government has been struggling for some time now to prove itself capable of getting India’s economy back on track. Events over the past week or so...
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Fiscal cliff threatens US millionaires
Congress and the White House are locked in negotiations to strike a deal to weaken the impact of tax increases and spending cuts due to be implemented in January. December 31 is the deadline for action...
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