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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
A government without common sense, and with class arrogance
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Recently the Prime Minister urged workers and employers to use their ‘good solid British common sense’ to decide what was safe with the re...
Monday, 18 May 2020
On V shaped recoveries, and where the Treasury’s deficit obsession will matter
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I should perhaps go through some of the thinking that lay behind my Guardian article about not repeating austerity, because I fear there ...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
The government is responding to pressure and not thinking clearly about defeating coronavirus
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In this article in the Guardian I lay out what the optimal strategy for handling COVID-19 should be for a country like the UK. How does t...
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Why the media in UK and US has moved beyond manufacturing consent, and why that has led to a war about reporting COVID-19
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (hereafter MC) was a book published by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1...
Monday, 27 April 2020
Did the scientists advising the government on COVID-19 make serious mistakes?
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The government has now said it will begin to wind down the lockdown with an extensive test, trace and isolate (TTI) regime in place. Conta...
Monday, 20 April 2020
Now is not the time?
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This post was written before the Sunday Times article on 19th April, and has been slightly changed as a result. The most serious failings ...
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