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A Hapless Government Produces an Unlikely Hero
One of the Truss government's remarkable achievements was to elevate the OBR from dull forecasting body to central pillar of fiscal responsibility.
- Conservative Party
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Truss Got One Thing Right: Politicians Must 'Educate' Voters
Say what you like about Liz Truss; she set a positive example in being open and in depth than politicians usually are when it comes to explaining economic policies to voters.
- Conservative Party
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Can Poverty Really be Abolished?
A strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Rediscovering Kalecki
One of the most-cited articles ever published by The Political Quarterly is a succinct discussion in 1943 by Michal Kalecki about the concept of full employment.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
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The UK's Refugee 'Invasion' is a Brexit-made Policy Failure
Beyond the political rhetoric, the scapegoating and displacement of responsibility, there is another story of a self-made policy failure intimately connected to Brexit.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Why Did it All go Wrong (so Quickly) for Liz Truss?
Liz Truss’s premiership was far shorter and more tumultuous even than other failed takeover leaders. What happened?
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Parliament
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Libertarian Fallacies #2: Laws are Essentially Coercive
You do not need to spend much time talking to libertarians to know that they think that the law is essentially coercive.
- Conservative Party
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Libertarian Fallacies #3: There’s No Such Thing as Society
Individualism requires some form of collectivism.
- Conservative Party
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Accession or Election
The upper chamber has a higher standard of debate than the lower and enough of its members earn their parliamentary keep to justify their per diem allowances.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
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Local Government and the Everyday Economy
The growing national political interest in how to improve job quality and performance in the ‘everyday’ economy where most people live and work is long overdue.
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
