Brave New Europe is a blog that regularly reposts material that first appears here, as it also reposts work from those writing on the sites
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There is discussion in newspapers today of MPs being fearful for their physical well-being. I think it profoundly unfortunate that they are. I also think
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The video embedded in this video is very powerful: https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1416256521915310084?s=21 The government is not pursuing an experiment when it comes to Covid 19. It is
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I wrote this on Twitter last night:  It is the most basic of all freedoms that we have the right to decide. Descartes argued that
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I wrote this tweet yesterday in reaction to the news of the death of Sir David Amess MP: The tweet, inevitably, attracted some adverse comments,
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I have already  discussed Danny Blanchflower’s Peston lecture. It us now available on YouTube:  

My fellow Mile End Road Economist, Prof Danny Blanchflower, had good things to say on economics in his Peston Lecture yesterday. This annual event is
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This tweet from BBC Question Time last night was telling: “We all made mistakes, but we made catastrophic errors.”Scientist @ProfRWinston says the UK’s approach to
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This years Peston Lecture takes place this afternoon.  My friend, occasional sparring partner and Mile End Road economist, Prof David Blanchflower will be talking about
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