Assessing 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...
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 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...
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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 ArticleTuesday Links: TPP, Corbyn, Sanders, etc.
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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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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