Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Reform and the UK press

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It was entirely predictable that immigration/asylum would become the issue voters thought was the most important facing the country. Many p...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

When did relative UK decline begin? Productivity and the Global Financial Crisis

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When did things start going wrong in the UK? Many would give the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) as the answer. Now that may be a good answe...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite

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Whether we call the Trump regime fascist or not is in one sense just semantics. Trump clearly has similarities to the archetypical fascist ...
Tuesday, 5 August 2025

UK Growth, Productivity and Investment.

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  . Jagjit Chadha (ex head of NIESR and now a Professor at Cambridge) and Issam Samiri have an article in the Journal of Economic Su...
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Delusions on the Left and Labour Right

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  I had it with writing about internal Labour party politics at the end of the 2010s, and have written very little on the subject since. Wri...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Thoughts on the unpopularity of different approaches to tax rises

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  Rachel Reeves will almost certainly have to raise taxes in the next budget. That budget is too far away to get into specific tax proposals...
Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Ancestry and Immigration in the US and UK

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  The United States is now being run as a dictatorship. That this would happen was pretty clear the moment Trump won his second term, and t...