Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Something In The Air

While Keir Starmer is writing for the discredited Jewish Chronicle, which the case of Audrey White would have closed down if the paper had been called anything else, the Government is talking about taking a stake in airlines that might need to be bailed out.

It would not stop there, of course. Nor should it. But on Saturday's Today programme, while James Schneider tried to discuss the question of who should control public stakes in this day and age, including the possibility of a universal dividend (something like which some of us have been proposing for years), Ayesha Hazarika screamed over the top of him about the evils of Jeremy Corbyn, egged on by the presenter. She never mentioned a single policy. Well, of course not.

Guess which faction now controls the Labour Party. Guess which guest will be one of that party's parliamentary candidates in 2024. But the Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.

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