Might I give a plug here for a blog I have written for the New Left Project on the above, related themes? It’s available here. The
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The government is asking for design ideas for the back of the new £1 coin. Here are a few messages I can think of You’ve
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According to the Tatler the Scottish aristocracy are none to keen on independence. One is reported as saying ‘The buggers are out to get us’.
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I apologise for continuing to blog on the theme of the Scottish referendum, but little has so successfully revealed the true nature of the problems
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I have just spoken at the Reinventing Our Economy conference in Glasgow. This is, broadly speaking, what I had to say: Thank you for asking
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Anatole Kaletsky is chairing the conference I am speaking at later today. In his opening comments he talked of the Orwellian language of neoclassical economics:
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I was drawn to this comment by Richard Seymour in the Guardian this morning: What Apple has effected, just like Microsoft before it, is an
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There is little time to blog this morning, at least as yet. I’m too busy Reinventing the Economy in Glasgow this morning. But in the
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As the FT reports this morning: Half of voters feel that no one takes responsibility when outsourced public services go wrong, according to a leading
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