I have posted this video on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok this morning: The transcript is as follows: One of the proposals that I make in
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It is less than a year since I put the following quote from my 2011 book, ‘The Courageous State’ on this blog, but having noted
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As has been my habit in recent days, I put up a Twitter poll yesterday. In the light of developments in Gazza, the question that
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As the FT noted in its Lex column yesterday: First chocolate, now coffee — the supply of modern life’s necessities is being squeezed by a
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I watched both boat races yesterday. Why? Because I wanted Cambridge to won. They do, after all, train in my home city of Ely on
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I did another Twitter poll yesterday, because the Guardian highlighted concerns that members of the Labour Party have expressed about campaign materials produced by its
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A new commentator on this blog named Tony Wikrent made an interesting comment yesterday, saying, when discussing the purpose of economics: ”Many subscribe to Lionel
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Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, had an article in the Guardian newspaper yesterday that plumbed new depths for the Labour Party. Brown acknowledged
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I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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