I was asked this question on the blog this morning: I agree that the power here lies with Europe to formulate a coordinated, strong response.
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It would be terribly convenient to suggest that Donald Trump is mad; that his breaches of international law can be ignored; that his threats of
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We’re constantly told that people in rich countries live longer and that GDP growth is therefore the route to health, well-being, and social progress. But
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AI is happening. We are not going to stop it, and we shouldn’t pretend we can. But we can manage the economy that AI will
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The FT has published an article with the headline: Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? At the core of the argument the piece
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I was reading the new post on Substack from Aurelian last night, entitled Mere Anarchy. In it, I noted he said (I use the pro-noun
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Professor Simon Wren-Lewis has a recent post on his Mainly Macro blog entitled A Post-Neoliberal Consensus. It is worth reading because it shows both how far
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I said yesterday that the team here has decided that the focus of our work must now be on the creation of a politics of
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Westminster’s new “common sense” says defence spending must rise and that the price must be paid in cuts to care, public services, and social security.
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