Friday, 28 May 2021

Cummings, a puzzle about delayed lockdowns and more parallels between Johnson and Trump

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  Much (unfortunately for Hancock not all) of the material Cummings talked about in his morning testimony we already knew. Like the plans fo...
Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Johnson leads a populist government which should not be normalised

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  Did Trump move Republican policy to the left? Before you think too hard about that, I want to suggest it misses the point. Trump was a pop...
Monday, 17 May 2021

Is the spread of the Indian variant in the UK an inevitable result of living with COVID?

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  Acting fast The Indian variant ( B.1.671.2 ) of COVID-19 is now fairly well entrenched in parts of the UK and is increasing rapidly. C...
Monday, 10 May 2021

Some lessons in how to combat the Tory propaganda machine

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  The initial results of voting last Thursday are very easily explained. First, voters had a terrible year in 2020 and government help in ge...
Tuesday, 4 May 2021

How most of the West got the pandemic so badly wrong?

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It takes a lot to shock me nowadays, but the failure of most OECD countries over this pandemic I do find shocking. Not in the case of the U...
Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Eurozone fiscal rules should be based on national macroeconomic stabilisation, not national debt stabilisation

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  In memory of Andrew Hughes Hallett Eurozone fiscal rules have been suspended during the COVID crisis, thankfully. But I have argued on...