Sunday, 4 June 2017

What does Labour's poll surge tell us

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This isn’t another discussion about whether Labour can ‘win’: I’m far less qualified than others to make predictions of that kind. Nor is i...
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Friday, 2 June 2017

GE2017 and the stages of Leaver grief

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After the Brexit vote, various people had fun talking about the stages of Remainer grief, going from denial through bargaining (we can stil...
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Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Growth will be lower if the Conservatives win

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The Conservatives want Brexit to be the central issue in this election. Partly as a result, the relative macroeconomic outlook under the di...
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Saturday, 27 May 2017

Theresa May

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The Conservative plan for this election was for it to be about personalities rather than policies. Theresa May versus Jeremy Corbyn.  The q...
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Monday, 22 May 2017

Still not getting it after all these years

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I met Nick Macpherson, the most senior civil servant at the UK Treasury from 2005-16, for the first time (I think) a few weeks ago. It was...
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Friday, 19 May 2017

Conservative Contradictions: the limits on Red Tories

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There has been much talk of Re-leavers: those who voted to Remain but are now voting for Theresa May to get the best Brexit deal. I had...
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Wednesday, 17 May 2017

But do the numbers add up?

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The (official) launch of Labour’s manifesto saw mediamacro on display in all its unabashed pre-Keynesian ignorance. The idea that we could ...
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