Trouble is that funding undergraduates is very much like venture capital. Some will convert that education into not much money (though often a lot of social good- does the state really want to pay fu… (View Post)

Remember the grisly run-ups to Reeves's budgets? Here we go again? (View Post)

The ghost of Keith Floyd waves hello. (View Post)

Two separate things. One is the desirability of a balanced budget over the medium term. Lots of questions about what counts as balanced (what do you do with state assets?) and medium term, but there&… (View Post)

Bigger than it was than before a certain detonation. (View Post)