mainly macro

  My starting point is not what Andy Burnham said but points recently made by Chris Dillow. Here he argues that we shouldn’t worry about t...

  As I have argued in previous posts , the rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes. In many ways over the las...

  Popular discussion of inequality or poverty in the UK is often confused because there are many different measures of both. [1] Some facts ...

  According to YouGov , ‘Immigration and Asylum’ was the second most important issue facing the country in May, just behind the economy. Acc...

  It may be a coincidence, but the possibility of fresh leadership seems to have inspired a couple of papers published by Labour groups on h...

  I want to expand on a footnote to last week’s post. As I said there , we now have clear evidence that austerity from 2010 onwards helped...