The Institute for Government has published this chart of unemployment statistics for five countries this morning: Note that the UK is lowest on the chart.
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If now isn’t the time for a Green New deal, why not?
Larry Elliott wrote a piece on the Green New Deal in the Guardian on Thursday, when I missed it, so I will make up for
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Rishi Sunak is not an economic miracle worker: he’s just a standard ideologue
I posted this in Twitter last night having noticed praise being posted for Rishi Sunak. That praise contrasted his performance in this crisis to that
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Mythbuster: We can’t afford the interest on the national debt
Myth We can’t afford the interest on all the money the government it is borrowing. We’ll never afford anything else if we borrow at this
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I must not equate government budgets with household budgets
The scientists will not accept responsibility for the excess deaths the government is about to deliver
I think this is an important development: This is hugely important. SAGE members rebelling & speaking out: too early to lift lockdown. The ‘clear science
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