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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Contextualising data
I was talking to a journalist yesterday. It is an occupational hazard of my role. He was interested in the traffic data for my YouTube
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What happens when the internet is turned off?
These are two related headlines from the FT, both from yesterday. Start with this: Then, note this: There is no coincidence here, at all, of
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Liberals and the politics of care
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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A post-neoliberal consensus? Not on this basis
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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Glossary entry: the politics of care
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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What are we defending?
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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Is it time for England to go out on its own?
We put out this video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: Latest opinion polls are showing that in both Scotland and Wales, there’s a very
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Wales has had enough of English politics
This opinion poll, from ITV in Wales, published yesterday, is very encouraging with regard to the Senedd election coming up in May 2026: Comparisons are
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