As the FT notes today, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, has promised revenge on what he said was a “vast domestic terror movement”.
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Why satire matters
Free speech in the USA is under open attack. As it is in this country as well, of course. Here, the crime is to express
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The history of economic thought: an introduction
Welcome to a new series on this channel: the history of economic thought. In this series, I’ll explore how economics has always been shaped by
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If Trump says jump, Starmer will
As ITV has reported (and I have edited, but very lightly): Keir Starmer is set to present President Trupm with a bespoke red box, the
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£19.7 million a job – the most expensively bought jobs in history
According to Starmer this morning we are to get inward investment from the USA of £150 billion. We are, he says, to get 7,600 jobs
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The centre cannot hold
This came to mind this morning: The Second Coming W. B. Yeats 1865 –1939 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear
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The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge
Something quite extraordinary happened yesterday. A state visit took place, with all the associated pomp and ceremony, and no one was allowed to witness it,
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The Quantum Essays: Observing and Engaging
Background Having finished the first series that I plan to publish on quantum economics (others are planned), it became clear that explaining the use of this
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Abandoning fiscal rules is the price of preserving democracy
Guardian journalist Helen Pidd, asked, after attending the far-right rally in London at the weekend, a simple but wholly appropriate question: When the far right
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