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We All Love Free Trade… Don’t We?
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Continue reading →: We All Love Free Trade… Don’t We?How the UK–US pharmaceuticals deal shifts costs onto the NHS I’m writing this partly out of surprise. Not because the deal itself is automatically indefensible, but because it was agreed by a Labour government. At first glance, it feels counter-intuitive, not in economic terms, but in political ones. This is…
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Continue reading →: Zero-Hour Contracts Aren’t a One-Way StreetAs a parent, having watched my kids do various part-time jobs on minimum wage, I’ve seen how fragile “flexibility” can be. Yes, they are young, but they still have rent and bills to pay. More than once, I’ve watched their employers expect them to turn up at a moment’s notice,…
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Continue reading →: Economists Say…Except when they don’t!We live in a time where the current orthodoxy appears to be the only one presented to us, at least in economics. This has led to a position where the media claims “Economists Say…” as though they are one body of thought. Nothing could be further from the truth. If…
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Continue reading →: Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right…Here I am, stuck in the middle with you… and you know what, it is where I want to be. After my last blog a few people suggested I should do more of them, since I have retired, I no longer have an excuse not to. So, this particular blog…
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Continue reading →: Hating Trump isn’t enoughOf an excuse to give the BBC a free pass. This should be a wake up call to all of us who seek the actual truth. I’ve long excused the BBC’s mistakes, long supported them on the basis that if both sides claim bias, then they must be doing something…
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This blog grew out of a simple frustration: the gap between real life and the way it’s reported. I’m less interested in headlines than in the framing, assumptions and narratives behind them. I write about the space between noise and nuance, and why the middle is generally where the truth is found.
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