Tag Archives: john gray

Dear John Gray…

Dear John Gray,

You have me  baffled, I’ll confess.

Writing recently in the London Review of Books you talked about how in your view Vince Cable and others in the Orange Book a vision of a “small government”.

I’m confused because it’s true that Vince Cable’s chapter does call for a cap on the maximum that the state can raise in taxation. However, that maximum was set higher than the Labour government was taking in at the time in 2004, several years after they had ‘turned on the taps’ on public expenditure and left previous Conservative Party spending targets well behind.

Blair and …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged | 24 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Tristan Ward
    @ Judy Abel "sovereign wealth fund" Yes I've long thought Britain missed a huge opportunity there. I don't know how much (if any) of the oil tax revenue...
  • Judy Abel
    @Tristan. Norway created a sovereign wealth fund from its oil revenues which could have bee done in the UK to support public services - but no the money was squ...
  • John C
    Donated....
  • theakes
    Polanski support is tumbling. He is rated almost as low as Farage in the latest IPSOS survey. We should give him no publicity and indeed we need to be hammerin...
  • Tristan Ward
    @ David Raw "When the postal service was first introduced back in the 1830’s " We don't live in the 1830s. How would you - in 2026 - run a busines...