There is every chance that Keir Starmer’s speech today will be hailed by those in the Labour Party’s leadership as a model of statesmanship. It
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Starmer is disliked, even by his own members
Starmer clearly loathes Labour Party members. He has got rid of a third of them. He lied his way to their leadership. Now he flagrantly
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Economic questions: The James Buchanan 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
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Has the coup already happened?
The New York Times began an email I received overnight by saying: Today, I’m talking to my colleague Damien Cave, who wrote a great piece
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Nigel Farage vs climate change
This video was posted to YouTube yesterday afternoon, but I was so involved in what I was doing I forgot to share it here. So
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10 commandments for a just economy
Our economy isn’t working. It’s built on lies: the myth of growth, the myth that profit comes before people, and the myth that wealth is
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Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest
At the Labour Party conference this morning, Rachel Reeves said: “There is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using one in every £10 of public
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Capitalism, my arse
As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the carmaker battles the
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Fiscal rules
Introduction This is one of a series of posts on this blog which summarise my thinking on some key economic issues about which I am
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