I wrote a piece that might have upset some supposed modern monetary theory (MMT) supporters yesterday, making clear by doing so that I thought they
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Trump’s new rules
Nesrine Malik puts forward an interesting idea in the Guardian this morning when suggesting that the whole basis of Trump’s policy agenda is to ask
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Trump is making words meaningless
Unless politicians mean what they say we get a world where nothing can be relied on and chaos rules. Trump’s disdain for the truth is
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Country mouse goes to London
I spent the day in London today instead of visiting a bird reserve. The Royal Academy was our initial destination, to meet our elder son.
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The German election result is grim, but 80 per cent did not vote fascist
One in five people in Germany who voted in today’s election voted for an openly fascist party that has sought to deny the significance of
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Have we already lost the war?
I am sorry to go on about defence again, but this blog is, if it is anything, a long-term train of thought, and right now,
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When everything we know changes, what comes next?
Trump is trying to break government, the USA, world peace and much more. We could despair, or we could, as happened in WW2, plan for
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It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real
I think it’s time to admit to something. I am finding quite a lot of things about blogging and posting videos quite hard at present.
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Is Brussels backing away from making companies resposible for their climate impact?
This is very troubling from Politico Europe: BRUSSELS — A rule forcing companies to measure and report the environmental damage they cause is at risk
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