I thought I would summarise what work is in progress here right now. Significant themes in development are: An alternative budget, which will come out
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It is time we got on with the process of change
I know it’s a cliche to quote Gramsci saying: The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the
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Talking with Zack Polanski
My podcast with Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, was published last night: I make no apology for the fact
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The working day
Having posted my comment on solution-focused thinking here yesterday, which was a response to PSR’s request for an explanation of how I worked, I then
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Not bad
As every person who takes social media seriously knows, it is a life in which statistics play a part. You just can’t help looking at
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Solution-foscused thinking
I spent a lot of time thinking over the weekend. There were moments for leisure, birdwatching, a family meal and film, and for working out
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Question Time, and more
It is only three weeks since my elder son, James, joined the Funding the Future team, but my thinking on a great many issues is
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The difficulty of building political economic narratives based on metaphors
I spend a lot of time thinking about metaphors. It may not sound like the work of an economist, but if you want to build
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Why do I still do this at 67?
People keep asking why I still make these videos every day at the age of 67. The truth is simple: our economy is still deeply
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