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I always get into trouble with economists when I claim that there is no such thing as an apolitical economics.  That economics is a branch of…

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What was it about the 1870s? Now beyond the horizon of history – the oldest generation still alive today probably met nobody who remembers that…

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Decided by the British people in the June 2016 referendum, Brexit is a decision to leave European institutions with an essentially economic vocation. It is…

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Environmental politics has come a long way in the last couple of decades. From being a marginal political issue associated with sandal-wearing tree-huggers who lived…

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Here is a little bit of Liberal Democrat heresy to brighten what – without the news from Afghanistan – should be the final weeks of…

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The all-encompassing nature of social media makes it nigh-on impossible to entirely remove oneself from its clutches.   The unprecedented past few months of lockdowns has…

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This post first appeared in the newsletter of the Sensible Centre. Covid lockdowns have had many predictable impacts. But they have also had one surprising…

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Twenty years after it started a war against them, America has given Afghanistan back to the Taliban. The Americans would have preferred a transition period…

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At a dinner focused on the future of education a couple of years ago, a businessman put forward a request as to what he would…

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Failure is meant to an orphan, but the debacle in Afghanistan is prompting an unedifying string of paternity suits.  That the Afghanistan mission did fail…

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A great deal has been correctly made of the need for international funding for the transformations required to adapt to climate change. Yet the UK…

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Reading the latest IPCC report about  the prospects for global warming has not been easy. Yes, there remains a glimmer of hope, but – when…

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