Keynesian Liberal

Friday, 31 May 2019

The Border and the Backstop

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On the final pages of his detailed "Legacy of a Century of Irish Politics" Irish historian Diarmaid Ferriter writes: [The] draf...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2019

What became of the people that we used to be?

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The celebrated children's author and illustrator Judith Kerr died last week The day after her death was announced  I caught a snatch of...
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Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Two swallows?

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It's a truism that one swallow doesn't make a summer, so perhaps one fantastic election result doesn't constitute a revival.  B...
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Saturday, 25 May 2019

Goodbye Mrs May

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As predicted in the previous post, (it didn't require psychic powers) the media have now abandoned serious analysis of the problems fac...
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Monday, 20 May 2019

The Tory leadership, a pointless distraction

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In " The English Constitution " Walter Bagehot observed, in defence of the Monarchy, that the public were much more interested in...
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Sunday, 12 May 2019

. . a tide in the affairs of [the Liberal Democrats]

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As Shakespeare said   (J ulius Caesar Act 4, scene 3) : "There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on ...
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Saturday, 4 May 2019

Local elections: reading the runes.

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It is a truism that not a great deal can be predicted from local election results.  After all, only a third of  those  entitled actua...
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