The Riots of August 2011
The Riots of August 2011The riots that engulfed London and other cities in England began one year ago today. Just to hark back to my piece ‘Riots: Looking Deeper’ on this topic last year, written one...
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Unemployment and Policy
Unemployment and PolicyThis post is on 2 pages. Please click on the appropriate page number at bottom of text to navigate. There’s a very interesting take on UK unemployment trends in the July NIESR...
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Equality of Voice and ‘Devo-localism’
Equality of Voice and ‘Devo-localism’Don’t I get a say? That’s where the real constitutional debate needs to be – around a radical constitutional option that puts Scotland back into the hands of its...
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Welfare Myths and Welfare Facts
Welfare Myths and Welfare FactsReady to Work…I am publishing here a paper on ‘Welfare Myths and Welfare Facts’ (pdf 65kb). This is a summary, but please read the complete paper. The belief, held by...
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The Callousness of a Conservative
The Callousness of a ConservativeCharles Moore is the official biographer of Margaret Thatcher, former editor of the Daily Telegraph and an Old Etonian. He has nicely epitomised the indifference,...
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Unemployment – Morality, Money and Increasing Returns
Returns to Scale in Frankfurt’s business district ©DWP The causes of unemployment make it a moral issue. Radical solutions are required. In an earlier post I noted some features of unemployment from a...
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Independence is Nominal
Independence is Nominal – long-gestated thoughts given birth to in response to Brian Barder’s blog post on the lack of post Scottish referendum preparedness and the need for the UK coalition government...
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Beyond Defeat for Labour in the UK
Tweet A New Dawn? After defeat at the 2015 UK election Labour talks about appealing to the ‘aspirational’ and David Cameron pledges before his cabinet ‘to give everyone in our country the chance to...
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China, Democracy and Reality
Tweet Tianan’men – The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Beijing, China. www.diarmidweirphotography.co.uk Having recently had the opportunity to visit China and combine that with some reading about the...
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If ‘Neoliberalism’ Is So Great, Why Lie About It?
Tweet What is it about ideological free marketeers and their shaky relationship with the facts? Everyone likes markets and free exchange is one of the best manifestations of human co-operation there...
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The Role of Capital in Inequality
Tweet Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”, published in 2014, played an important role in directing attention to the issue of inequality in the developed economies of the 21st century. The...
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Equality of Voice – An Introduction
Tweet Stating Your Case – The Common and Most Basic Capability Everyone in British politics, right and left, is now talking about inequality and social justice. But there is much confusion and...
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‘Poverty Safari’ by Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey
Tweet Glasgow, old and new ©www.diarmidweirphotography.co.uk Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari (Luath Press, 2017) is a very honest and powerfully written account of growing up and surviving amid...
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IS-LM and Making Sense of MMT
Tweet IS-LM and MMT The core issue at the heart of debates between the heterodox Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) approach and more mainstream macroeconomics is how the financial economy and the real...
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