Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty — and the power of the honours system. We accept that a knighthood
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300,000
Sometime during the course of last night, our YouTube channel got its 300,000th subscriber. At the start of the year, that total was under 100,000;
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Economic questions: The David Graeber question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Young people are alienated by neoliberalism
As the FT notes today, in another excellent article by John Burns-Murdoch: In the UK [the number of] … young people who are increasingly disengaged
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The lull before the storm
The surreal sense that we are living through a moment that will, in retrospect, be seen to be the lull before an enormous economic storm
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The PDF Shop
There is a new feature on this site this morning. We now have what I am calling a PDF shop. It is also called Downloads
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Why Reeves’ November budget is already broken
Rachel Reeves plans to deliver a budget on 26 November — but how can she do that when the Labour government is falling apart? Cabinet
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Taking ideas for a walk
I was talking about and teaching editing yesterday. That is something I began learning many years ago, and which everyone who wants to communicate has
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Growth has disappeared
I have already written about growth this morning and how I frame the issue, which is very different from how I think Rachel Reeves does.
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