Every journalist, political commentator and influential tweeter had their say on the Comprehensive Spending Review. What did the blogs have to say? Not a lot really unless they challenged Treasury […]

I’ve made a map using data from the Guardian Datastore, which looks at the percentage of each local authority that’s employed by the public sector. Preston features pretty high, coming […]

Protesters in the town centre

The Chancellor’s announcement of cuts across the UK is bad news for many people but the Comprehensive Spending Review brings some reassurance and benefits to the North West. Some key […]

Here’s a word cloud of all the words in Chancellor George Osborne’s speech. Not really much else to say here…