A reader here asked this question today: Hi. New reader, found my way here via a recent interest in degrowth economics. I’m hoping someone here
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Ne’er a truer word
I know some dream of a stairway to heaven. I’d rather have this: That’s the boardwalk on the way to the hides at Cley bird
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The unaffordability of Trump
Donald Trump’s Great Gatsby–style party at Mar-a-Lago reveals everything about modern America — excess at the top, hunger at the bottom, and the deliberate cruelty
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A reminder
Just in case anyone is not aware, these are my priorities for the next few days: I need time to birdwatch, walk, sit over a
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Who is killing the coffee trade?
I was recently reading the introduction to James Hoffmann’s World Atlas of Coffee, which someone in our house seems to have because this is a
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The oppression goes on
This is from the Bank of England statement on the interest rate change decision made yesterday: At its meeting ending on 5 November 2025, the
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Where is Britain’s black hole?
The government says there’s a “black hole” in the public finances — but the black hole is really in our hospitals, schools, and local councils,
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MMT v fascism
Ignorance about money is set to become an even more important feature of UK politics, it would seem. As the FT has reported: A former
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Economic questions: the Paul Krugman 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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