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Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Friday, 23 February 2018

The persuasive power of the UK right wing press

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“It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio”  - Joseph Goebbels The fi...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017

Problems with triangulating over immigration

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I have talked before about why triangulation over austerity did not work for Labour, but why triangulation over Brexit seems to be more su...
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Inequality or poverty

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Tony Blair famously said : “[It’s] not that I don’t care about the gap [between high and low incomes], so much as I don’t care if there a...
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Sunday, 8 January 2017

Tough on the causes of immigration

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In Tony Blair’s recent intervention on Brexit, I kept expecting to read “we need to be tough on immigration, and tough on the causes of im...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Why the political centre needs to be radical

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In a recent article on Tony Blair, George Eaton wrote : “[Blair] said of Corbyn’s supporters: “It’s clear they can take over a political ...
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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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