Monday, 21 January 2019

It is time to remember 1918, and hold a 'multi-coupon' election

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I have been beginning a debate with my friend and Radix colleague Joe Zammit-Lucia about whether or not a general election is the only wa...
Monday, 14 January 2019

The least competent government ever? No, it's worse than that...

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This post first appeared on the Radix blog... Have we ever had such an incompetent government? Isn’t it so embarrassing? That is how the...
Monday, 7 January 2019

Misunderstanding the Munich crisis

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Those fascinated by the events of Munich eighty years ago will be aware that there are two books out which assume rather different interp...
Sunday, 23 December 2018

How badly do we need Paddy now?

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Of all the unlikely pieces of news that have belaboured us in recent weeks, the news that Paddy Ashdown has died - with all his drive and ...
Tuesday, 30 October 2018

Where are all the men?

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This post first appeared yesterday on the Radix blog... Why would a relatively sane man like me (perhaps that is overstating the case) dar...
Tuesday, 23 October 2018

What does inclusive growth mean in practice?

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Since the banking crash ten years ago, it should have been clear to the most bone-headed of policymakers that there was something wrong with...
Thursday, 11 October 2018

Liberalism, literalism and the war against imagination

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"Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebell...