Thursday, 20 January 2022

The BBC’s crisis over scientific fact

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  The BBC is under attack, and there is no doubt we should support it with all the energy we can. Of course there have been many failings i...
Tuesday, 11 January 2022

The broadcast media - knowledge disconnect

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Today we are in the middle of an Omicron wave, but I want to go back to mid-November. The BBC News at Ten on 15th November 2021 ran as its s...
Tuesday, 4 January 2022

The evidence, and the consensus among economists, against Tory fiscal policy has grown over time

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  This is an old theme with two new pieces of information. The first comes from a survey of US economists, the majority of whom are academi...
Monday, 20 December 2021

The Ego-libertarian party

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  It is easy to argue against measures designed to stop the spread of the Omicron COVID variant before it has become dominant, as 100 Tory M...
Monday, 13 December 2021

Cutting through

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  Legislation going through parliament at the moment is the most regressive and repressive that I can remember from a social liberal’s point...
Tuesday, 7 December 2021

They lie about everything else, so why is the economy different?

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  “All Covid rules have been followed” says Johnson when questioned on the Christmas and other lockdown parties that were held at No.10 last...
Monday, 29 November 2021

Death by government policy, assisted by the Brexit press

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  There is an underlying truth about the 27 deaths of people trying to get to the UK across the English Channel. It is a truth you are very ...