Tuesday, 29 June 2021

The COVID wave the government doesn’t want to talk about

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  [If you receive this blog by email, I hope you will be pleased to know that after many requests I have preserved that ability using follow...
Tuesday, 22 June 2021

What attitudes to lockdowns tell us about the right wing media

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When I talk about how important the media is in forming political opinions and attitudes, some people tell me the causation is all the othe...
Tuesday, 15 June 2021

A government out of control

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  The commitment that the UK government gives 0.7% of its GDP as overseas aid is enshrined in law. Johnson’s government decided to cut this ...
Monday, 7 June 2021

How should we think about talk of an impending US inflationary spiral?

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  In 2013 I was presenting at a Bank of England conference. The UK recovery had stalled for three years. I cannot remember the details, but ...
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Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Worried about another COVID wave? Here are some pictures of Johnson getting married again

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  When cases in another country start growing rapidly, you quarantine in hotels people coming from that country. If they have existing varia...
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...