Sunak will be terrible, and unless Labour changes tack he could win despite that
Monday, October 24th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: At the time of writing it seems very likely that Rishi Sunak will become prime minister today.
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We need a courageous state
Friday, October 14th, 2022I posted this thread on the courageous state on Twitter this morning: I have done a lot of Twitter threads of late on how worrying
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The personal isolation of neoliberalism has to be consigned to history: we need to live in a participatory democracy again
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this lunchtime (other work having got in the way before then): The Truss government is failing. Extraordinarily it has
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What next for Truss?
Monday, October 3rd, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Few weeks come like the last one. The problem now is what will follow it, because the
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We need a revolution
Thursday, September 29th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Six days after Kwarteng gave the worst budget in living memory, where are we? A summary thread…
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What now for Trussonomics?
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The shape of Trussonomics is becoming clearer. Assuming she survives in office, which given how unpopular she
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The economy is stagnant
Monday, September 12th, 2022This is data on the first estimate of changes in GDP in July: Overall GDP was up 0.2%. The growth was down to the increase
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Yesterday was so bad that we have no choice now but think about the world we want after neoliberalism
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Yesterday was bad. It was, in fact, very, very bad. If Johnson was a disaster, Truss has
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The nightmare progression to being a failed state begins
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022The nightmare has begun. I think I realised that when on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday, debating with Mark Littlewood of
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