2021 February 23

Thursday evening

Posted on February 23 2021

I have already plugged this a bit but I will do so again: Tickets are available by signing up as a non-member here.

The news on employment is depressing – and that’s before taking furlough into account

Posted on February 23 2021

With Johnson announcing the economy will be open by the end of June my expectation is that Sunak will be rapidly unwinding furlough and other
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If you ask the wrong questions about the national debt without first trying to understand what it is you do, of course, get the wrong answers

Posted on February 23 2021

I watched Channel 4’s Dispatches on who pays for Covid last night, largely in despair. Partly that was at the choice of the hard-right economics
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Little sense and less sensibility: the government’s route to many more Covid deaths

Posted on February 23 2021

I watched the Prime Minister’s press conference last night. I read the ‘road map’. I read expert reaction in the media and on Twitter. And
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