Filling the voids in the post-Elizabethan era
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: It’s indisputable that the Queen’s death marked the end of an era. It also creates two empty
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It's time to radically reform the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee
Friday, September 16th, 2022Prof Danny Blanchflower and I issued this press release late yesterday: The Mile End Road Economists Time to reform the Bank of England Monetary Policy
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Truss is putting the monarchy at risk by joining Charles on tour
Sunday, September 11th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I had decided that I would leave aside discussion of the monarchy and its role in our
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Truss shambles
Friday, September 9th, 2022I intended to write a review of Truss’s energy plan yesterday, but events got the better of it. The most appropriate thing to say is
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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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On Patrick Minford
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022Larry Elliott has a piece in the Guardian today discussing Patrick Minford, the economic adviser to both Thatcher and Truss. He notes: The left-leaning economist
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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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Truss does not care
Monday, September 5th, 2022I have just posted this thread on Twitter: I took the weekend off writing. I deliberately wanted a break from commenting on the crisis that
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The EU gets the need to suspend markets in the public interest: will Liz Truss?
Monday, September 5th, 2022Andrew Marr has picked up on my ideas for energy market reform in The New Statesman: Further, it means tearing up the present regulatory system,
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