I was reading the new post on Substack from Aurelian last night, entitled Mere Anarchy. In it, I noted he said (I use the pro-noun
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A post-neoliberal consensus? Not on this basis
Professor Simon Wren-Lewis has a recent post on his Mainly Macro blog entitled A Post-Neoliberal Consensus. It is worth reading because it shows both how far
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Glossary entry: the politics of care
I said yesterday that the team here has decided that the focus of our work must now be on the creation of a politics of
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What are we defending?
Westminster’s new “common sense” says defence spending must rise and that the price must be paid in cuts to care, public services, and social security.
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Is it time for England to go out on its own?
We put out this video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: Latest opinion polls are showing that in both Scotland and Wales, there’s a very
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Wales has had enough of English politics
This opinion poll, from ITV in Wales, published yesterday, is very encouraging with regard to the Senedd election coming up in May 2026: Comparisons are
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Wny won’t the media tell the truth?
The FT has this headline this morning: Then you read the subheading, and it says: So the truth is, Labour has said something absurd, and
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People will not accept enforced prejudice
Labour is continuing to prove it is inept. As the Guardian reports this morning: Ministers have rolled back plans for a central element of the
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The politics of care in 2026
The Funding the Future team had what you might call an “awayday” yesterday, except that it did not last all day, and we only went
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