It is staggering how little people know about the UK economy. I noticed this chart is part of the thread on Twitter yesterday: The research
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I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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When you’re asked why the UK has dire public services one entirely appropriate answer could be that we’re simply not willing to pay for them.
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I was asked to speak at an event organised by the Zero-Covid Coalition last night. This group takes the epidemiologically logical approach that the only
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As the Guardian notes in its morning headline story: As fears grow over the threat posed by the highly mutated Omicron variant, detected in more
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I found this headline in the FT both simultaneously worrying and intriguing: Germany has had a constitutional ban on its government borrowing for some years
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A commentator on this blog named Ros Wain sent me this poem written by her son. I share it because I think it is worth
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The last week has seen a number of major news stories, from the deaths of refugees, to the sleaze of a government that partied whilst
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I was musing this morning having woken at my usual blogging hour even though there was no light at that time to stir me out
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