Brave New Europe is a blog that regularly reposts material that first appears here, as it also reposts work from those writing on the sites
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We don’t need to manage fear: we need freedom from fear
There is discussion in newspapers today of MPs being fearful for their physical well-being. I think it profoundly unfortunate that they are. I also think
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We must tell the truth that people are going to die from Covid again, wholly unnecessarily
The video embedded in this video is very powerful: https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1416256521915310084?s=21 The government is not pursuing an experiment when it comes to Covid 19. It is
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Sajid Javid is deliberately blaming those working in the NHS for failings that cannot be of their creation, but are of his making
I wrote this on Twitter last night: It is the most basic of all freedoms that we have the right to decide. Descartes argued that
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No one should ever die for or because of politics
I wrote this tweet yesterday in reaction to the news of the death of Sir David Amess MP: The tweet, inevitably, attracted some adverse comments,
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Our government chooses indifference to real people. Putting concern back in economics is what really matters
My fellow Mile End Road Economist, Prof Danny Blanchflower, had good things to say on economics in his Peston Lecture yesterday. This annual event is
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Why do we have to live in a society that does not care about people dying due to government indifference?
This tweet from BBC Question Time last night was telling: “We all made mistakes, but we made catastrophic errors.”Scientist @ProfRWinston says the UK’s approach to
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Politics is not a game without consequences. It really is time that the Tories realised that before more have to die.
Dominic Cummings said this on Twitter yesterday: He added: In other words, the Tories knowingly lied about both Brexit and its consequences for Northern Ireland
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Solidarity with Chris Packham
I share this tweet from Chris Packham, referring to the attack on his property this weekend and the hate he suffers on social media: Harassment
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