The confirmation that resident doctors will strike over Christmas was entirely predictable, as Roy Lilley has noted in his NHS-related daily email today. An 83.2
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Glossary entries: tax and the reasons to tax
Every time I look at this blog’s glossary, I seem to note more gaps or omissions than explanations that I need, even though there are
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Economic questions: the William Nordhaus 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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When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to
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Beware the end of December
The mantra of the late 1990s was that markets always go up in the long run. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now.
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Inequality is a political choice
According to the United Nations’ World Inequality Report, inequality results from deliberate political and institutional choices. This video explains what that means for the UK
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Why, Labour? Why?
The FT has this headline this morning: You don’t need to read the article. You just need to ask the obvious question, which is “Why?”
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Why economic policy matters for the Greens
As readers here will be aware, I have been tackling those who are seeking to drive the Greens in what they might describe as a
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What will happen if economic growth has come to an end?
For 50 years, Western politics has rested on a single promise: growth. But what if that promise can no longer be kept? In this video,
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