on March 23, 2012
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his budget on 21st March. Overall, the IFS declared it ‘fiscally neutral’ or as delivering as much in gift as was taken in turn.
This strategic position probably being unavoidable considering the chronic lack of growth in the national economy since the last election and the decisions made in the Chancellor’s Strategic Spending Review of 2010.
Arguments continue to rage about where fault lies for the the lack of growth in the economy. New hashtags of political outrage have entered the language as a result of the cuts and freezes resulting from Osborne’s SRA and the budgets implementing it – #Grannytax (removal of OAP tax privilege), #Pietax (VAT on hot food). Clearly there are many more to come, an example being this morning’s announcement of a proposal for a minimum price per units of alcohol.
One of the more intriguing personal subtexts to the performance of the budget is the presumed ambition of the chancellor to inherit the PM’s job in due course. After describing the budget as ‘without economic significance’ Martin Wolf in the FT thought he saw this game well afoot. Happily for me it also matched my own drawing of the event.
on March 20, 2012
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 19th March 1712 is published at this window or click the picture to see. His patron Journalisted from The Media Standards Trust
on March 20, 2012
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 12th March 1712 are published at this window, or click the picture to see them. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
on March 20, 2012
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 5th March 1712 are published at this window or click the picture to see them. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
on March 7, 2012
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Prime Minister’s Questions is poor entertainment compared to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press – and its friends*. Poor old Punch and Judy have not a chance and especially considering David Cameron’s much-loved soundbite of yesteryear. (2005)
* That last phrase is mine.
on March 6, 2012
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A commissioned cartoon for a business magazine client made in February 2012 and owing something to Mahatma Gandhi.
on March 6, 2012
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 27th February 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
on March 6, 2012
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 20th February 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
on February 28, 2012
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One of the important relationships in the ongoing revelations about the activities of News International disclosed at the Leveson Inquiry is the one between Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, who was formerly the chief executive of the business in the UK.
on February 27, 2012
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 13th February 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust, where you amy read all about them.
