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Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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The SMF sees a saving disincentive in the new Universal Credit
As benefits and tax credits are rolled into one, UC will extend the rules on claimants’ savings to current tax credit recipients. This means that families with £16,000 or more in the bank will no longer be able to claim … Continue reading
Welfare reform bill to be published
The Bill for reforming welfare is being published today. More on this here and here at 8.51am
Healthcare reform: not radical enough
The Health reforms announced yesterday are not sufficiently radical. They put lots of power into the hands of General Practitioners (GPs). Instead, power should be in the hands of individuals. The GPs will be given a certain amount of money. … Continue reading
Private education for all
Here is a more radical idea from Civitas for improving education of all. The full article is worth reading for its rebuttal of the zero-sum game fallacy in education. A more progressive reform, in the sense of improving outcomes for … Continue reading
How about accountability?
If you are going to have state education, how can you make it work as well as possible? The article below reflects an idea an idea from Jeb Bush, an interesting politician. Alarmingly, 33 percent of fourth-graders in America are … Continue reading
The Big Society or just the Devolved State?
I just went to hear Jesse Norman MP talk about his new book, The Big Society. He remarked that there is a great deal of political philosophy about the state and the individual. But there is little on what is … Continue reading
Good and bad privatisations
There are good ways of privatising state monopolies and bad ones. It is a vital concept recognised here.
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Reform
Some bad news about the welfare reform and some good
As so often with government documents, some of the real meat is near the end. The bad news: The key bad news is that the much heralded 65% rate of benefit withdrawal is only benefit withdrawal. It does not included … Continue reading
Summing up the benefits reforms
Some of us – including myself, I must admit – thought that David Cameron was just a Tory version of Tony Blair. He could sweet-talk and put on a great look of concern but he was not going to do … Continue reading
The importance of Clegg and other notes on the welfare white paper
Notes on the press conference, the Commons debate and a few other things: It was very noticeable that Iain Duncan Smith gave special thanks to Nick Clegg for his support. He said that it would have been more difficult to … Continue reading