Tuesday, 30 August 2022

How populists use broadcasting impartiality to create bias and obscure knowledge

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  Some of the criticisms I have seen of the MacTaggart Lecture given in Edinburgh by Emily Maitlis miss the whole point of the lecture . As ...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

After the Virus

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  Our probable next Prime Minister has said that if another pandemic hit the UK, she would not authorise any lockdowns similar to those em...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Why our new Prime Minister is ignoring multiple crises, and proposing policies that helped generate these crises.

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  Many people have commented on the complete disconnect between the issues being debated as part of the Conservative leadership campaign and...
Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Labour shares, decoupling, real wages and inequality

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  There is still a lot of confusion around about why UK real wage growth has been so low since the Global Financial Crisis and 2010 austerit...
Thursday, 4 August 2022

Why does the Bank of England appear to be ignoring its mandate?

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  The MPC has raised rates by 0.5%, and forecast both very high inflation and a recession. To many people this will come as no surprise. Whe...
Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Brexit supporters constantly deny that that problems caused by Brexit have anything to do with Brexit. Does this remind you of anything?

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  I hope this will not come as a shock to US readers, but one of the constants of UK culture is to laugh at the ability of so many in the US...