I listened to the first of the BBC Reith lectures for this year last night. The lecture was given by Dutch historian Rutger Bergman. The
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Is the Office for Budget Responsibility really protecting the UK economy, or enforcing austerity? I argue that the OBR was designed to remove democratic control
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Wes Streeting told Sophy Ridge this morning that he had “Had it with the BMA” (British Medical Association) and that “An outbreak of juvenile delinquency”
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British politics is broken. The old left vs right divide no longer explains what is happening. Instead, we face a new choice: care or neglect.
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Why is the left still terrified of the state’s power to create money? In this video, I set out a straightforward truth, which is that
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There are days when I genuinely wonder what parts of the left think the state is for. The capacity to create money is the most
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I was talking to an old friend, Tony Groves, of the Echo Chamber podcast, based in Dublin, on Friday, largely because I was recording a
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Throughout the weekend, I kept asking myself whether I should write a blog post about Rachel Reeves misrepresenting the economic background to her Budget, but
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Grace Blakeley has replied to what I wrote about why parts of the left oppose modern monetary theory. In doing so, she has reinforced every
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