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Showing posts with label Gary Younge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gary Younge. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 July 2019

Understanding why right-wing populism succeeds

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I have just been rereading “ Populism and the People ” by Jan-Werner Müller in the London Review of Books (May 2019). It is the most conci...
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Tuesday, 9 April 2019

The right wing partisan media is the elephant in the room in discussions of mainstream politics and far right extremism

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Treason used to be a word associated with spies or assassins. Crimes against the state of the utmost severity. Yet, to take just two recen...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

The economic cost of the Brexit decision that Leaver voters do not get to see

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Those promoting Brexit are fond of saying that it’s not about economics. Gary Younge in the Guardian tells us that there is nothing wrong...
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Monday, 7 August 2017

The media cannot reform itself until it acknowledges its power

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As regular readers know, I have for the last few years been banging on about the importance of the media in influencing public opinion. (It...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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