Nigel Stanley
There’s a shorter version of my cuts article at Liberal Conspiracy with a lively discussion thread.
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Nigel Stanley
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Join us from noon tomorrow on ToUChstone blog for live coverage of the budget, in association with Left Foot Forward, Liberal Conspiracy and other progressive bloggers.
And then throughout the afternoon, our team will be giving their specialist takes on the impact of the Chancellor’s announcements.
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Nigel Stanley
A big welcome to new blog A Thousand Cuts - it’s:
the blog/news site that aims to report, monitor and analyse the impact of the savage public spending cuts that are about to hit Britain to cope with the fallout from the banking crisis.
It’s already got some interesting and useful posts.
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Join us, the blogging teams of Left Foot Forward, LabourList and Liberal Conspiracy, and special guest commentators this Wednesday from noon for live blog coverage of, and reaction to, Alistair Darling’s budget speech in the Commons. We’ll be scanning Twitter for opinion as it happens, so make sure to use the hashtag #budget2010 to get involved.
And stay with us on ToUChstone blog throughout the afternoon on Wednesday for specialist reaction on how the budget will impact on some of the big political and economic issues of the day.
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We’d like to wish a very happy Christmas and New Year to all our readers here at ToUChstone blog. It’s been an interesting year for us as the blog has grown and diversified, and we’ve enjoyed sharing our blogging journey with so many people, old acquaintances and new.
Our Christmas card this year marks thirty years of the Amnesty International (UK) trade union network. During 2009, we’ve taken steps to strengthen the links between the work of the TUC and Amnesty. Unions and human rights go way back though. Indeed Amnesty International founder, Peter Benenson, had actually worked many years earlier for the TUC, and had been sent to Spain in the early 50s to observe the trial of some trade unionists persecuted by the Franco Government. (His complaints to the judge were so effective the case against them was, unusually, dismissed and they were set free.)
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UPDATE 2pm: Thanks to everyone who came to or contributed to the PBR liveblog. The event has finished now, but you can still read the transcript here after the fold. Also check out the blogs partnering in the event throughout the afternoon for post match analysis (ourselves, plus Left Foot Forward, Liberal Conspiracy and LabourList).
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling gives his 2009 Pre-Budget Report tomorrow (Thursday 9 Dec).
Brendan has set out what we see as the three tasks he needs to pull off in a post here, and tomorrow we’ll be using the blog to analyse the PBR and its implications in more detail.
Join us from 12 noon onwards for a live chat on the PBR, produced in association with leading progressive blogs Left Foot Forward, Liberal Conspiracy and LabourList, and featuring many expert guest commentators.
Then throughout the afternoon, our ToUChstone blog team will be posting up their own post-match analyses, on what the report means for their particular policy briefs.
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We’re going to be joining the Left Foot Forward blog team from noon on Wednesday for their live coverage of Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report.Billed The Left Foot Forward Progressive PBR, it will include other guest commentators and reader discussion through chat on the site and via Twitter (address your tweets @leftfootfwd to get them noticed by the moderators).
