Why Labour will fail in government
If opinion polls are even close to accurate, Labour will win the next election. The stated position of the party is that their primary...
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Common Sense
The congealing opinions and rants of a self-consciously inconsistent contrarian.
I'm a PhD student in economics at UGA. Before that I worked in the financial sector, and got my undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. I started writing this as a way to record my ruminations on politics and economics with my family and friends when my Mum started taking notes halfway through one of my late evening rants. I write a bit about economics, a bit about politics, but mostly about whatever I'm interested in. The "Common Sense" title is a reference to Tom Paine's pamphlet which paved the way for the world's first republic, not the Daily Mail's ideology.
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Condemning homophobes is good, actually.
Kate Forbes is arguably the front-runner to take over the leadership of the SNP and become Scotland’s First Minister. She is also a...
Not enough workers, not enough jobs
The recent UK census has sparked significant concerns about the sustainability of the UK welfare state. Specifically, with over one sixth...
Reasons to read dead white men
A major current of the discourse™ (of which, samples here, here and here) of economist twitter of late has been about whether academic...
The New Malthusians
Remarks initial delivered at the UK's Political Economy club in July 2020 My essay on markets and nature has multiple different threads,...
A rant about Labour’s electoral strategy
A rant about Labour’s electoral strategy Keir Starmer has not yet been leader of the Labour party for a year, but frankly from where I am...
Financial Repression part I: is debt such a bad thing?
How and why governments should deal with the covid debt
Latent social distancing with rubbish data
I have just finished reading a really interesting paper by Attar and Tekin-Koru (“Latent Social Distancing”, issue 26 of a series of...
Black Lives Matter: Policy demands
Demands from BLM: the leftist response It is a (genuinely) exciting development for anti-racist politics that a basic statement about the...
Class politics, racism, and Trump
The cultural right is not a working class movement. Rather, it is a diversion designed to forestall a genuine leftist politics
“Trade could make everybody better off”. So what?
The dirty secret of economics is that according to neoclassical trade theory, trade makes people worse off. Not all people, not even...
Triumph and Disaster
“If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two imposters just the same” Rudyard Kipling “The way your career works, you...
The necessity of a global response to COVID19
COVID19 lethally combines being infectious and deadly. Science, along with the now-daily updates on the dramatic increase in global...
Measuring Healthcare "effort"
"We are spending record levels on the NHS" says every Conservative minister who is challenged on the performance of the health service...
Returning to England, the election, and the politics of home
Rediscovering the politics of home may be part of the answer to how the left renews itself in the wake of the 2019 general election.
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