An email correspondent said this to me recently: MMT puts the horse before the cart; but I suspect if you designed the harness well, horses
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Why is the government sacking doctors?
There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary. Not because there’s no demand. But because the
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Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control
The Guardian reports this morning that: The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports.
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Cambridge, 28 February 2026
Our event in Cambridge on 28 February 2026 is now open for booking. The link is here. Thank you if you decide to attend. Bookings
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Economic questions: the Thomas Hobbes 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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What coalitions might work?
There was a comment on this blog on plausible coalitions I might partake in last night. There have also been many comments here on people’s
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The Survival of the Shameless
I listened to the first of the BBC Reith lectures for this year last night. The lecture was given by Dutch historian Rutger Bergman. The
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Is it time to abolish the OBR?
Is the Office for Budget Responsibility really protecting the UK economy, or enforcing austerity? I argue that the OBR was designed to remove democratic control
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We need deep thinking on delivery, and only get slogans
Wes Streeting told Sophy Ridge this morning that he had “Had it with the BMA” (British Medical Association) and that “An outbreak of juvenile delinquency”
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