Allegations are being made today about whether the BBC is impartial. I have just posted this comment on X: Those discussing impartiality should be pointing
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Why carry on tackling climate change?
As the New York Times notes in a mail this morning: The leaders of China, Russia and Japan won’t be there. Neither will the leaders
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Economic questions: The Nancy MacLean question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Birding
I blogged rather more than expected yesterday, and we had long conversations on quantum economics reconciling points of difference on thermodynamics, entropy and gradients of
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Unless the Tories and Labour agree on electoral reform they’re over
This was good, and entirely appropriate, from John Harris in The Guardian yesterday: People’s identities are complicated – something intensified by the means of communication
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The crisis in the news
The news is lying to you — and Britain is falling apart behind the scenes Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud —
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Energy privatisation is bust
It is time to give up the pretence that there is a viable neoliberal market in the supply of domestic energy in the UK. As
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The US right wing is devouring itself
The Financial Times has reported that Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, which is the most influential conservative think-tank in the United States, is facing
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New glossary entry: the Full Funding Rule
Definition The Full Funding Rule is a self-imposed Treasury convention requiring the UK government to “fully fund” any fiscal deficit by issuing an equivalent amount
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