Media Notices

    June 8, 2010

    The Guardian: My once-in-a-generation cut?

    March 12, 2010

    Investors Chronicle: Debt and gilts: some history

    December 17, 2009

    BBC News Magazine: What do the rich give back to society?

    September 29, 2008

    Labour Matters: Tories attack Government borrowing, Labour responds with transparency

    September 2008

    UK Office of National Statistics: Improving the Quality of Central Government Expenditure Data Used in the National Accounts: A 2008 Update

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    2. Population Estimates for 1981-2010.  From Office for National Statistics here.  Data from Region and Country Profiles - Population and Migration Tables - October 2011
    3. Country Population Projection through 2020. From Office for National Statistics here.  Data from Table 1.2 Actual and projected population of the UK by constituent country, 1971-2058
    4. Regional Population Projection through 2020. From Office for National Statistics here. Data from Table 1: England and GORs (Government Office Regions)

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    “We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
    E. G. West, Education and the State

     

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