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
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Paying attention to Scotland
Scotland, as I notice every time I go there, is very decidedly another country, and one to which most people in England have rarely visited
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Britain is a key arena in the struggle against a new form of fascism
A piece by Lewis Goodall, published on 6 April, deserves much more attention than it is getting. In his account of his recent visit to
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Why war is changing everything
The conflict in the Middle East is not a contained regional war. It is, instead, a geopolitical earthquake that is reshaping the global balance of
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Scotland in a time of chaos
I have an article in The National this morning that I open by saying: IT is my wife’s belief that, as a man of a
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On the brink of disaster
It could be argued that I have said all that is necessary about my fear concerning the attack that Trump is threatening on Iran, but
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The modern age of unreason
Is the Enlightenment being reversed? Are we going backwards in our thinking? Will Trump take us back to the Stone Age, as he threatens, in
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The EU’s inappropriate response to the coming economic crisis
The Financial Times has reported that EU officials are urging governments to prevent member states from offering support to households and businesses in response to the latest
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Have economists got Adam Smith completely wrong?
Neoliberalism claims Adam Smith as its founding father, but that claim is built on a lie. Smith’s first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759),
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