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On materialist utopias, policy failure, and the Sovietisation of higher education
Abby Innes helps us to understand the resemblance of neoliberal regimes and the Soviet Union. British universities exemplify the key flaws of both
Apr 16
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March 2024
Growth is not a plan. It’s an ideology (part 2 of 2)
Growth ideology is a constraint on growth. Its origins lie in conservative as well as neoliberal thought
Mar 3
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February 2024
Growth is not a plan. It’s an ideology (part 1 of 2)
Growth is a good thing, but not everything. The notion that it is a necessary prerequisite of progressive policies lends legitimacy to a narrower and…
Feb 29
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January 2024
The National Living Wage isn't working
The National Living Wage has not stymied in-work poverty - and increases tend to negatively affect many benefit claimants
Jan 7
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December 2023
10 survival tips for working class policy wonks
All the things I wish I had known at the start my career
Dec 27, 2023
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November 2023
Free, equal, and fiscally expansive
The liberal case for welfare state expansion has never been stronger, but the real world of welfare politics may render it largely irrelevant
Nov 19, 2023
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October 2023
The real reason Rishi Sunak cancelled HS2: the political economy of high speed rail
Sunak’s decision shows that he lives in a world of his own. But we all live in a different world to the one in which we embarked on HS2
Oct 8, 2023
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Craig Berry
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September 2023
Britain isn’t going to destroy the planet, but we might just fall off it. For it’s own sake, Labour needs a better response
Rishi Sunak’s dismantling of the net zero agenda is a test of competence – not vision – for Keir Starmer
Sep 24, 2023
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Britain isn’t going to destroy the planet, but we might just fall off it. For it’s own sake, Labour needs a better response
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July 2023
Productivity puzzles and monetary policy mysteries
The bluntness of monetary policy as a tool of macroeconomic management is increasingly clear: the UK economy is almost beyond help
Jul 23, 2023
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The Universal Credit youth penalty
Young people have lower pay, and lower benefit awards - and now young Universal Credit claimants are far more likely to have income withdrawn through…
Jul 9, 2023
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On the case for a universal basic dividend
UBD offers a new approach to both welfare and economic governance - its breadth of ambition could be a limitation, but the idea has radical potential
Jul 2, 2023
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June 2023
Price controls are the right policy, for the wrong reasons
Sunak's supermarket proposal will help to tackle inflation, but must be part of, not in place of, a wider package of cost-of-living support
Jun 11, 2023
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