#Government

Some observations about COVID and QLD, having been here for three weeks, visiting from NSW. (It feels like visiting from another planet.) The QLD Government has done a very good
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The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) was instated to help fund Australian medical research. It has been apparent that the awarding of these disbursements is flawed.Have first hand examples of
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"COVID-19 and its economic consequences for the Euro Area" - That is the title of a paper that Michael Paetz and I wrote and that was published last month. Let
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The prime ministers of Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and Austria, ask: “How could it suddenly be responsible to spend €500bn of borrowed money and send the bill into the future?” and
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Mr Cooper is referring here to a part of Bill C-14 which would amend the Borrowing Authority Act to raise the maximum amount of outstanding debt to $1.831 trillion. But
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This is what happens when you leave universities, education and research alike, in the hands of businessmen (not accidental) and allow that centres that ought to be for knowledge and
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Thread on Union Budget Glossary(Explanation of common terms used in #UnionBudget Speech)Re-Tweet if you like to maximize the reach. 1/nFM @nsitharaman will present #UnionBudget for 2021-22 in #LokSabha on 1
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As a very pro-EU Scot who is broadly in favour of democracy, here are my Arguments against a second referendum; without using the phrase 'once in a generation' The downside
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The @CPBritain addresses the expulsion of @jeremycorbyn :"The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party on the flimsiest of pretexts is not only a baseless attack on a longstanding
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THREAD: Russia, Resilience & Covid-19The security and intelligence agencies are getting some stick over Russia. So here's a small corrective.Having worked as adviser to GCHQ for 8 years and having
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ICYMI: The federal government released more detailed data about PPP loan recipients and amounts after several national media organizations won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in December. Now we
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For sure #HagiaSophia's return to a Masjid is a welcome move, for too long its status was a symbol of Muslim decline. Now we need to move beyond symbolic acts.
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I've been reading Milton Friedman (most recently, "Why government is the problem") for a new book project and, I have to say, that dude is laughably wrong about a lot
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READ: it's worth the time to read every page of the redacted documents published today by Robert JENRICK about the #Westferry decision, following pressure @UKLabour @SteveReedMP and @MikeAmesburyMP and not
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9 months into this crisis, and things are worse than ever.It would easy to blame this only on Trump. But the failure here is broader than that. It is a
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Coming up: the most extraordinary thread I’ve ever written. On how we blew over £150m and Andrew Mills (a Government adviser) seems to have made a fortune. But let’s start
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