I checked the Conservative Party website to see what they were saying in their manifesto on envirnmental issues. This is it: Environment We have pledged to
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This is an election in an era of mass propaganda
There are three reasonable reactions to the suggestion that the Tories have, according to an opinion poll for the Observer, a 19% lead in public
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The Progressive Toolkit: maybe the most useful weekend reading you’ll find
Ha-Joon Chang recommended the CLASS think tank Progressive Toolkit to all in the Progressive Economy Forum yesterday. As CLASS says of it: This Progressive Toolkit
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Spot the woman
The Electoral Reform Society has done a Wordle (as think they are called) of the given names of those standing for election on 12 December:
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Labour’s not going to tip us over any edge
This is from the Times: If you want the OECD data this is it: Labour is going to put us slightly up the rankings. But
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies is a reactionary force in economics
The Guardian has an editorial today in which they say: Economics dominates public debate while being seen as an abstract authority over which people have
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10 things you need to know about UK government debt
The Jubillee Debt Campaign has written a briefing entitled 10 key facts about UK debt. They are worth sharing. Ten key facts everyone should know before discussing
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Uncounted: The November Taxcast
This month on the Tax Justice Network Taxcast TJN CEO Alex Cobham talks about his new book The Uncounted on the politics of counting. Who’s missing from the stats, from the
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Free broadband is socially profitable
I was a signatory to this letter from a majority of the members of the Council of the Progressive Economy Forum in the Guardian: We
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