I am reposting this from the blog of the Productivity Insights Network, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK.
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This is near latest data on new Covid cases, comparing the UK and Europe, and using data from the FT: The UK is aberrational: remember
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From my Twitter account this morning: What is this government doing? Just for the record, this is one plot of what is happening with Covid
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A week ago I published here the weekend essay I had written for the Jersey Evening Post, published by them on June 26. I made
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In another post this morning I made the comment that in many areas there are purists who think that there are perfect outcomes to the
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Labour has won Batley and Spen, just. Am I relieved? Of course I am. Who wouldn’t be? More worrying was that over 20,000 people voted
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Rushi Sunak has announced that National Savings & Investments (NS&I) will issue a £15 billion bond to fund green projects this autumn. I have been
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I am so bored of the government saying crass things like ‘we are going to have to get used to living with Covid’. This is,
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This story was in The Times yesterday: The essence of the story is that £15 billion of government backed bonds are to be made available,
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