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Author: David Boyle

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Towards the idea of a local Green New Deal

5th March 20195th March 2019 David Boyle 0 Comments green new deal, QE

It is a strange thing, given the sound and fury emanating from the USA over the phrase, but the idea

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Why the climate contrarians lost the argument

20th November 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments climate change, contrarians

This post is taken from Richard Black’s new book Denied… This is the story of a coup-d’état that failed. A

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The mindset behind the dwindling reputation of UK railways

8th November 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments rail privatisation, Southern, SWT

The Brighton Belle was famous for its kippers. Laurence Olivier would take a leisurely breakfast back to his home in

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Happy 90th to the sane alternative pioneer

14th August 2018 David Boyle 1 Comment

This week marks the 90th birthday of one of the pioneers of the new economics: James Robertson, one of the

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Why have they made it so degrading to use services?

5th August 20185th August 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments privatisation, railways

Yes, it is hot. The heat has also added a layer of what I can only describe as degradation to

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To save the NHS we have to be a little critical

16th July 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments alienation, co-production, NHS, time banks

So the NHS is 70 years old, and – perhaps it is because it is currently under threat from serious

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Is a different kind of trade deal possible?

24th May 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments free trade, hayek, trade, Trump

It is one of the great ironies of history that, east and west, the liberation of the agricultural slaves and

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Blog Daily Climate Denial 

Running to stand still in the North Sea clean-up

29th April 201830th April 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments decommisioning, fossil fuels, oil

One of the peculiar implications of our obsession with oil and fossil fuels is the strange way the UK has

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It isn’t public versus private, it is big versus small

24th January 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments carillion, economies of scale

Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

At last, a vindication from the National Audit Office

10th January 201811th January 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments cancelled, Govia, grayling

It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of

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