There's a lot that can be said about today's spending review, and I dare say people are saying some things about it.
But my chosen topic is that "U-turn" that the media keep banging on about. What's so bad about listening and changing a bad policy?
At the moment, we have a political environment where changing your mind is seen as somehow irresponsible and indecisive; yet what we have hear is a chancellor who has decided that the opposition to his tax credit cuts (which will disproportionally hit the poor) were opposed for genuinely good reasons.
Is re-assessing a bad policy in the light of heavy opposition really a bad thing?
Of course Osborne has sneakily got the cuts in anyway; all his welfare savings that he planned to get by punishing the poor for their feckless ways are still going to come about because he has still cut "Universal Credit" which new claiments get. It's existing claiments of "tax credits" who get their reprieve.