I share this unusually long quote from the Guardian because of its significance: Official warning letters have been sent to anti-monarchists planning peaceful protests at
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Would PR change who you voted for tomorrow?
In the light of local elections taking place in some parts of England tomorrow, and discussion on proportional representation on this blog, I was curious
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Of course the Tories like first past the post: they win massively from it
Unusually, this blog post shares a press release. It came to me from the Electoral Reform Society (of which I am a member) and seems
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Starmer makes me despair
Keir Starmer was interviewed by the ever-affable Justin Webb on the Tory Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Paul Waugh, chief political correspondent
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The banking system is just a charade as the failure of First Republic in the US proves
This weekend saw the second-biggest bank failure in US history. As the FT reported yesterday, US bank, First Republic was closed with the active involvement
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How government is funded
I was podcasting again last night, this time with Scotonimics at the invitation of Kairin van Sweeden and William Thomson, its co-hosts. We discussed the
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The world is unfair and anti-democratic
My friend and fellow Mile End Road economist Danny Blanchflower has fallen foul of Twitter. They have suspended his account: I have spoken to Danny.
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What a President might say that a monarch cannot
I noted an excellent speech made by Irish President Michael Higgins late last week. Given at the 20th anniversary of the Irish think tank TASC,
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A live stream?
Due entirely to an error on my part the blog post on my live Stream with Steven Keen and Friends appeared rather late on this
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