Easy councils, green shoots and radical budgets:top 5 blogs you might have missed this week

Warren Morgan is concerned about Barnet’s ‘EasyCouncil’ model and recent claims that it should be emulated elsewhere. Alex Massie suggests that economic circumstances in the UK are healthier than is generally claimed. Rushanara Ali argues that the UK needs a method of tackling tax avoidance that does not rely on corporate goodwill. Tim Montgomerie observes that George Osborne is under intense pressure to deliver a budget the right of his party deem sufficiently radical. Robbie De Santos welcomes the attention that renting is receiving as a political issue, though cautions that the government must still take action.