My Economics Blogs- A kind of byeToday is my final day in the Telegraph offices, where I’ve spent all but one year of my career since university. From later this month I will be back at university – at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where I’ll be taking a Masters in Public Administration. I’ll still be blogging for the […]
- US Government spends more on health than the NHSRemember the fuss Barack Obama generated when he first raised the prospect of creating a national healthcare system in the US? Remember how, as the healthcare bill was debated, American eyes looked towards Europe and recoiled in horror and disgust at the massive and overwhelming burden Britain faces with its National Health Service? At the […]
- Please read this before trying to claim the Government is not cutting spendingDepending on who you listen to, Britain is facing either a spending squeeze the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1920s or a healthy 9pc increase in Government spending over the course of the Parliament. So which is it? The answer is both. This is something that has caused some degree of confusion […]
- Budget 2010: Your five-minute guideThis is not, I should begin by saying, a Budget which can be digested in five minutes. It may have been nominally an Emergency Budget but it is exceptionally rich in measures, policies, changes in tone, figures and analysis. However, here are a few of the most important nuggets to help you understand just where […]
- Budget 2010: What to look out for todayWe all know by now that this will be a big Budget, both in terms of the measures and in terms of the picture it sketches out for the UK economy. The credit ratings agencies, having watched the behaviour of the new coalition closely, will serve their verdict shortly after the document arrives; Britain’s credibility […]
- A kind of bye
- My Culture Blogs
- Summer songs: Fame (Duff Disco edit)Has there ever been a bigger time for the remix and edit? Whether it’s the Norwegian kings of cosmic house and rather spacy renditions of disco classics or the homespun stuff put together on these shores by Leftside Wobble or Rayko, every DJ and producer seems to be trying these days to take on the […]
- Sonar 2010: dirty but deliciousI have to admit it, I misread Sonar. Perhaps it was the setting – unlike almost every major festival, which happen to take place in a field or dilapidated shed miles from anywhere, Sonar takes place in none other than Barcelona. Perhaps it was the line-up – almost every great dance act and world-class DJ […]
- Summer Songs: Aurora BorealisIn the first of a series of (possibly very) occasional posts recommending a few of the summer’s finest dance music tracks, here is one song which threatens to be very big indeed. Ian O’Donovan’s Aurora Borealis is, for me, the stand-out track in John Digweed’s latest compilation, Structures. Very turn-of-the-millennium progressive hou […]
- Dancesaurus: Deep HouseIt has been all of six months since the last entry in the Dancesaurus – and the reason I left it so long is, frankly, because I’ve been dreading this, the next entry. Not because I didn’t want to write about deep house; because I hardly know where to begin. For me, and for many who […]
- Reinventing the DJ mixNot so long ago, DJ mixes were a massive part of the dance music machine. They were the big money-spinners – the next big mix from Carl Cox, Pete Tong or Paul Oakenfold (the big DJ’s name far more important than the craft of the record) . That’s not so much the case any more: as […]
- Summer songs: Fame (Duff Disco edit)
Blogs and tweets
My latest tweets
- Sorry 4 twitter silence over past wks - combination of moving to US + lack of phone + having homework for first time in yrs. Back soon 2010/07/27
- Easyjet, having delayed us by 4hrs on flight up 2 edinburgh, have now delayed return flight by 2hrs. Train wldve been far quicker. Appalling 2010/07/18
- Edinburgh beautiful today. Halfway thru bro's stag wkend and mostly still alive. Tomorrow: st Andrews. Mon: move out of house. Tue: emigrate 2010/07/17
- I'm moving to America, quit my job 2 become student, hv no idea wot next. So why is most stressful thing in my life planning my bro's stag? 2010/07/14
- Oh dear. S&P retains its "negative outlook" warning on uk Govt debt. Blow 4 George Osborne who pledged b4 election UK wouldnt lose AAA crown 2010/07/12