This pamphlet called for funded tax cuts, imaginative quantitative easing, more capital spending and supply side measures.
So, like MacShane, we fervently look to the new justice secretary, Michael Gove, for a sign that, in contrast to all his predecessors, he recognises the prison disaster we all face and will take the radical and imaginative steps needed to cut the ever-burgeoning prison population, an expensive luxury the country cannot tolerate, and put rehabilitation at the heart of policy.
Talk of a shortage of money, and even of 40% cuts, is particularly imaginative, however.
The best of Labour is in power, in the cities as leaders and mayors, competent and imaginative in struggling with monstrous cuts – from London's Sadiq Khan to Nick Forbes in Newcastle.
Under those circumstances, any Austrian with portable skills would almost certainly choose to take them elsewhere.Pretend it's painlessAs the pension time-bomb has ticked away, European governments have become more imaginative in finding methods to cut back on the promises of the state pension system.
Skin lesions are produced in different ways, depending on the education and imaginative levels of each person – scarifications, cuts, burns – and are usually not admitted to by the patient.
It ignored the orchestra's arguments and reiterated the case for cuts, while also praising "our imaginative and hardworking General Manager Peter Gelb".
CBI director general John Cridland said the government would have to be "much more imaginative" about how it makes further spending cuts.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
And during and after the recession, as retailers' sales dropped, stores started looking to cut costs in new and imaginative ways.
