The Guardian has reported this morning that: So, a simple question. Who is it that is ratcheting inflation upwards? Is it multinational corporations, such as
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We need politics that cares
In the context of my last post on the need to tackle authoritarianism and making the assumption that authoritarianism and hate crime are associated, this
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A proper democracy might work better than the nasty mess we have got. We should give it a try
It was not a good weekend for English politics. There was a neo-fascist, racist inspired riot near Liverpool. The Mail blamed the headteacher who was
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The time to move towards the EU has arrived
As the Guardian has revealed today, a combination of government and opposition leaders together with senior civil servants and business representatives (but notably, apparently no
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Anyone who seriously thinks GDP measures prove that the country is succeeding economically is seriously economically deluded
The media is celebrating the fact that technically the UK is not in recession this morning as a result of the gross domestic product (GDP)
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GDP
With this morning’s stagnant GDP data now out it seems worth sharing another entry from the forthcoming glossary, or guide to keywords in political economy,
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Flatlining
I have read this morning’s GDP release from the ONS. The message is summarised in one chart: The economy is flatlining, at best. There is
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We live in a broken, divided and profoundly unfair society
The Guardian has a headline this morning that says: It has another that declares: How can these headlines be reconciled? That is easy. What they
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The menace of AI writing bots
I cannot have been alone in being just a little amused at the news that Google’s new artificial intelligence chatbot got an answer wrong in
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