Thursday, 29 September 2016

All progressives should get behind Corbyn

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 The Labour Party conference has resounded with repeated calls for unity behind Jeremy Corbyn, now re-elected as leader with an even bigger...
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Monday, 26 September 2016

9/26 - America's, and the World's, Black Monday?

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Tonight at 21h00 their time (02h00 ours on the 27th) Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face each other in 90 minutes of televised debate.  T...
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Friday, 16 September 2016

Hinkley Point C: government not listening

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In the Brexit debate  the then leading leaver Michael Gove made himself look silly by claiming that Britain had "had enough of experts...
Monday, 12 September 2016

Britain's complacent entrepreneurs.

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At last a leading Tory, DR Liam Fox, Secretary of State for International Trade no less, has blown the gaffe. Britain's poor export per...
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Saturday, 10 September 2016

The return of the Secondary Moderns (aka HQNSSs)

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I recently read an article which pointed out that, if there were a school with  two dinner queues, a short one which specially attractive d...
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

State of the UK - an inventory (2)

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For the genesis of this inventory please see previous post, which examines the UK in respect of Beveridge's "five giants." ...
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Monday, 5 September 2016

State of the UK - an inventory (1)

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Tomorrow I expect to have lunch with a man to whom I taught economics in the 1960s.  Then he was a youthful and very enthusiastic  member o...
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