Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Two paths to controlling COVID with vaccinations

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  As vaccination is rolled out across advanced economies, the main danger has become mutations of the virus, or variants. We all know about ...
Monday, 1 February 2021

Why vaccines alone are not enough, how the UK government could mess things up again and which European country will eliminate COVID first?

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  Why has the UK government decided to apply serious travel restrictions to incomers because of COVID now, almost a year after the pandemic ...
Monday, 4 January 2021

Why the UK’s COVID crisis should be personal for so many Tory voters

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  There are around 16 million over 60s living in the UK, nearly a quarter of the UK population. They are the most at risk from COVID: catch...
Monday, 23 November 2020

Politicians and experts: austerity, Brexit and the pandemic

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  I’ll be talking about fiscal policy during and after the pandemic at a Resolution Foundation/MMF event in a week’s time: https://www.mmf.a...
Monday, 9 November 2020

COVID, the US election and media balance

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  I want to start with my last post . It contrasted a minority of countries that were good, were not too bad and the majority that were terr...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020

The political economy and psychology of COVID rebounds

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You can call it a second wave, or a resurgence of the first wave. But whatever you call it we are seeing in some European countries a steady...
Tuesday, 21 July 2020

The reality behind fiscal scare stories, or mediamacro is alive and well

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If you listen to the broadcast media, you will have almost certainly picked up the message that at some point in the near future the Chanc...