The volume of deliberate trolling on this site has considerably increased of late. I am amazed that so many have so much time to waste,
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I have for the past five years been funded in three fundamental ways. The first has been by a core grant from the Joseph Rowntree
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When Danny Blanchflower and I were both heading for 20,000 twitter followers (and he was a few hundred ahead of me) we made a little
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As regular readers here are aware I tend to blog a fair amount. That may not happen this week. I am in Copenhagen tomorrow for
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Having just posted the last blog I realised that this blog is celebrating its ninth anniversary today. Nine years, 11,967 posts at a rate of
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I have watched my readership figures on this blog over the last few weeks with interest. Until May 8 traffic on the blog had been
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It’s half term and I am taking a break. In the proverbial language of politicians, I want to spend time with my family. The blog
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There isn’t a blogger on earth who manages just one significant  post in a day and gets stats like these: If my thoughts help sway
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I have to make the point every now and today is one such day: there is a moderation policy on this blog. Amongst the things
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