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Corbyn Victory; Other election links
Scott Fullwiler, New Economic Perspectives, Corbynomics 101. A good piece responding to three critiques of Corbyn’s idea of a “People’s Quantitative Easing”: ” the government would create a public...
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Off Guardian (embedded above), Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies. Via Gaius Publius, via Naked Capitalism, where they are calling it Tony Benn’s “Ten-Minute History of...
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Alone Now: From Hope to Brexit Despair
By John Weeks Original cartoon appeared in the Evening Standard June 1940 after Dunkirk evacuation & surrender of France, by David Low with caption “very well, alone then”. A Tale of Two Summers...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Corbyn Phenomenon
By John Weeks Labour Party Rebellion of 2016 Cross-country political comparisons mislead by creating an illusion of insight. The attempt to compare Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn provides a clear...
View ArticleLabour Party Leadership: Fight for Policies Not Souls
By John Weeks A Yawning Divide Those following the internal conflict in the UK Labour Party repeatedly read that it is a fight for the “soul” of the party. This metaphysical reference to the contest...
View ArticleAssessing the UK Electoral Avalanche of December 2019
By John Weeks On 12 December the UK Conservative party scored a stunning victory as it buried the opposition in an electoral avalanche. As I venture some thoughts on that outcome and its implications...
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