The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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There is a new page on this blog today. You can find it from the main menu. That has got three lines on it, top
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There has been some criticism here of my overuse of the term ‘neoliberalism’, which, it has been suggested, is not widely understood beyond the environs
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be
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Rachel Reeves is presenting a budget built on assumptions that simply cannot survive the world we are about to enter. Share prices are likely to
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There is a sentence in The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), published this week, that makes clear exactly what the issue with them
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I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night at what was described as a “fireside chat”. Photo: Thomas Murphy I was amused to learn when
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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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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will
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