Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Expertise, Government, the Media and Covid

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  It is now generally (although not universally) accepted that those of us who campaigned vigorously against the government’s auster...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies

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  The government’s latest proposed revamp of asylum laws reminds us that Labour have not abandoned their approach of using right wing popul...
Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge

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  In my last post about the prospect of Labour breaking its tax pledge, I did something I don’t often do, which is indulge in some ‘I told y...
Tuesday, 4 November 2025

UK Productivity and the Budget

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  Most people reading this will know that one of the Chancellor’s big problems that she will have to tackle in the November Budget is a down...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters

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  In the weeks before the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters ban was announced, Conservative party leader-in-waiting Robert Jenrick declared that ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2025

What the call for fiscal headroom reveals

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  Everyone, including the IFS, is agreed that the Chancellor should in the budget create more fiscal headroom than she did previously. Rath...
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Populism and Economic Prosperity

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  Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...