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Write Bagehot column for the Economist. Comment writer of the year at British Journalism Awards 2024
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People think “good things are bad” is a good column. The best column says “good things are good”. Few do it

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It is tho

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excellent column showing how HMG spends most of its political capital doing this on interventions worth tiny fractions of the overall cost of government

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Labour does have to sell an unpopular message: consume less, invest more. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Good column on Lab's remarkable ability to pluck the minimum number of feathers from the goose with the maximum amount of hissing: All pain, no gain: Labour’s odd strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

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"If this... government has a project, it is making Britain accept that it must consume less and invest more. That means... short-term pain, for long-term gain. There is a case that the government could make." Our @psjeditor.bsky.social paper highlights some challenges here: doi.org/10.1111/psj.....

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Underrated improvement to public realm: trucks going from BEEP BEEP BEEP to SHHHH SHHHH SSHHHHH when reversing

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London Is Dry

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Excellent analysis. The distance between reality and choices made is by far the most disappointing part of this government to date

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All pain, no gain: Labour’s odd strategy economist.com/britain/2025...

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Excellent www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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"That’s the thing with MrBeast: everything that happens is always just happening, and if you want a reason for it, it’s no more or less than the fact that you yourself are watching" www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

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Rachel Reeves has signed off plans to spend billions of pounds on a new railway line between Manchester and Liverpool and other urban transport upgrades as part of next week’s government spending review www.ft.com/content/9e2d...

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🚨OUT NOW🚨 He’s old, he’s reactionary, he’s authoritarian-curious, he hates the EU… and he’s dead. Why are the main parties fixated on the demands of a zombie voter who has gone to join the Choir Eternal? @duncanrobinson.bsky.social joins as our guest! Take a listen 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

new voter just dropped: Crackhead Man

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Wonder if anyone has ever combined centre left politics with a crackdown on anti social behaviour so hard that the Tories become a civil liberties party?

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One thing you learn doing book festivals around the country is there are very angry middle-class professionals everywhere...

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Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!  economist.com/britain/2025...

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"Lump of college fallacy". Great line in this Economist leader www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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