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Comment on macroeconomic issues
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Pretending the pandemic is over has been the disaster most experts said it would be
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As I wrote over a month ago Boris Johnson, in an attempt to gain support among at least half of his MPs, the newspaper oligarchs and his ...
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Energy Prices in the UK and France: nationalisation or regulation, and Sunak's spring statement
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A comparison of the extent of energy price increases for consumers in the UK and France has attracted a lot of attention. The French gover...
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Denying national self-determination from Ukraine to Scotland, and the lessons of Brexit
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What makes Putin's invasion of Ukraine so unforgivable? The three most obvious factors that have led to popular revulsion against what...
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Information wars
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Contrast public perception in the UK of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with the US and UK invasion of Iraq. There is, rightly, no attempt to ...
Friday, 25 February 2022
Why the price of Johnson staying in power is measured in yet more human lives
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Next weeks blog is early because of topicality and grandchildren. It is probably a failed attempt at transforming raw anger into meaningfu...
Monday, 21 February 2022
We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline
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Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with this chart, of UK real GDP per capita since just after WWII. It shows a remarkably...
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