Hugh Muir's diary

Don't worry, Sir Alan. You wouldn't be the only one having nightmares• Now he's there. Soon he will be gone. But why, ask critics on the web, did Sir Alan Budd decide that enough was enough as George Osborne's man at the Office for Budget Responsibility? Having cuddled up to the ConDems, has he, for the second time, been having trouble sleeping? "The nightmare I sometimes have, runs as follows," he told filmmaker Adam Curtis in a 1992 documentary about Thatcherite economic policy. "I was invo...

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