Saturday, 13 July 2019

Will Labour’s new Brexit policy win back voters?

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Labour has finally agreed to back a People’s Vote unequivocally on any Brexit deal. That includes any deal it might itself negotiate afte...
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Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Our new Prime Minister is abandoning austerity and going on a tax cutting spree (if you believe him)

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These proposals are not designed to help the economy, but to keep T ory party backers happy amid the chaos of a No Deal Brexit I was...
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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, 2 July 2019

Is Brexit a culture war or a class war?

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The dynamic of today’s service based economy means that social liberalism is in part generated by class. Imagine someone with a p...
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Saturday, 29 June 2019

The UK right wing press: news or propaganda? The Boris domestic story.

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Some background for non-UK readers. The contest for the next leader of the Conservative party, and therefore our next Prime Minister, is n...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Once the Nasty party, now the Brexit party

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Brexit could be a gift to Labour that will keep on giving, if the Labour leader is able to grasp it One of the sentences you are sur...
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Friday, 21 June 2019

Why austerity is not Labour’s Legacy

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On the relationship between finance and fiscal policy When Momentum put out this tweet following the latest spat between Corbyn and ...
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