Keynesian Liberal

Thursday, 28 January 2021

100 000 Deaths: the Indictment.

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The landmark figure of 100 000 coronavirus related deaths was officially reached yesterday though I'd thought I'd seen the figure ea...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2021

Holocaust Memorial Day

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  Tomorrow, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day. On pages 141 et seq of his "Is this a Man?"  Primo Levi describes how prison...
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Thursday, 21 January 2021

Towards an Apple Monarchy

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  UK politicians like to think  we have  a "special relationship" with the US and Prime Minister Johnson was quick to say yesterda...
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Sunday, 17 January 2021

Why do we think what we think?

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 Wikipedia tells me that Think-Tanks were introduced in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but  my memory is that they came in...
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Thursday, 14 January 2021

Tough on the causes of death

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    The government PR machine appears to be manoeuvring to establish that the present danger of the NHS being overwhelmed by the coronavirus...
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Thursday, 7 January 2021

US "insurrection" - it could happen here.

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 On page 276 of "A Promised Land"  former US President Barack Obama writes: "As the US growth rate started to slow in the 197...
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Thursday, 31 December 2020

Rock bottom for our democracy

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  I think that when historians come to assess politics in the UK over the pas four years, and particularity the last four weeks, they will i...
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