![]() “The coalition did not turn out to be the weak, vacillating entity many had expected,” he writes. Mike Finn of Liverpool Hope University is co-editor of The Coalition Effect, one of the unusually large number of books – some admiring, some outraged, some baffled – already published about the current government. The composition of what the state does now is very different from at the start of the parliament.” With spending on the NHS, schools and pensioners pointedly exempted by the coalition from some or all of its cuts, since 2010 the outline of a much more minimal state than Britons have been used to since the 1940s, providing for citizens’ basic education, health and old age but not much else – the sort of state of use to wealthy Conservatives such as Cameron himself – has gradually become discernible. And if anything, government departments have underspent their budgets. There hasn’t been a period since the second world war where we’ve seen cuts on this scale or for this long. “We’ve seen cuts of up to a third in unprotected areas, such as local government. “If anything, the cuts have been larger than we expected in 2010,” says Gemma Tetlow of the independent and respected Institute for Fiscal Studies. From free schools left to invent themselves in barely converted buildings, to the micromanagement of poor homes via the bedroom tax from the brave challenge to Tory traditionalism of same-sex marriage, to the tabloid-pandering of the welfare cap from a sudden and vast reorganisation of the NHS to almost a million public sector job cuts from promises kept on austerity-busting benefit increases for pensioners, to promises broken over tripled tuition fees for students from the lavish Help to Buy scheme for homeowners to a reduction of a fifth in the disability living allowance from record levels of employment to the proliferation of zero-hours contracts from the sell-off of the Royal Mail to the closure of the Forensic Science Service from the 2012 cut in the top rate of tax for the richest quarter of a million earners, to the half a million Britons, at least, who used food banks in the financial year 2014-15 – in these and a blur of other ways, the coalition has reshaped Britain, patchily but profoundly. For the first time since Margaret Thatcher handbagged the world in 1979, Britain looks like the west’s test tube.”įive years on, the results of that experiment are all around us. Sooner or later, many other rich-world countries will have to take it too. “Most government departments will shrink by a quarter,” it reported. David Cameron’s hastily thrown-together coalition had been in power for only 100 days, but the weekly already liked what it saw. “We’re thrilled to join a like-minded organization that will continue to drive forward our shared mission of saving people time.I n August 2010, the usually deadpan, slightly-bored-of-Britain magazine the Economist published a rare excited-about-Britain article. “Slapdash was created to bring all your apps together in one place to give you new superpowers,” said Ivan Kanevski, Slapdash co-founder and chief executive. ![]() An email to ClickUp seeking information about the structure of Slapdash’s operations post acquisition was not answered. It has employees in San Francisco, Toronto and London. Our core mission at ClickUp is to save people time by making the world more productive, and we know we can accomplish this mission faster if we join forces.”įounded in 2018, Slapdash raised a $3.7 million seed round of funding about two years ago, according to information on its website. “Slapdash will enable ClickUp users to not only search across their apps but also provide them a command center to take action on work quickly. “We realized how much time employees wasted as they struggled to access the knowledge they needed to do their jobs,” said Zeb Evans, ClickUp Founder and chief executive, in a statement.
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