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Publisher:  sjwrenlewis
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The political situation of the US and UK in 2026 is very different. In the UK Labour is in power and will stay there for at least another two or three years, but they are threatened by a right wing populist hydra in the form of the Conservatives under its current leader, Reform lead by Farage, the right wing press, Musk via X...


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Are pile-ons by the media on individuals acceptable? It depends on the individual. If it’s a politician then probably yes, in that the politician has or is asking to have massive power and so a lot of scrutiny should come with that. Some argue the same for a celebrity, but in that case it is worth asking why someone who happe...


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I haven’t talked about recent UK macroeconomic data for some time, mainly because there hasn’t been any new story to tell. To recap, growth in the UK relative to other comparable countries was strong in the three decades before 2010, but then the UK entered a period of relative decline, exacerbated by Brexit. In addition the ...


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Neoliberalism as an overarching ideology for UK government died with the Brexit referendum in 2016, just as it did in the US with Trump’s election that year. Its last hurrah in the UK was austerity, although whether squeezing the state by reducing the quality of public provision rather than the amount the state does counts as...


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