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Stumbling and Mumbling

An extremist, not a fanatic.

  • By Chris Dillow
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly one post per month
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On ideological blindspots
There's a big ideological blindspot in political debate. To see it, consider two quite different recent texts: Conservatism in Crisis (pdf) co-authored by Kemi Badenoch and many others; and Sam Freedman's Failed State. Let's take …
On , by chris, 1,288 words
Against Scooby Doo ideology
There's an unspoken and apparently unquestioned presumption at the centre of this government's economic policy. We saw three examples of it this week. The first came in Starmer's speech at an investment summit where he …
On , by chris, 1,080 words
Beyond tax rises
Most people agree that we need to raise public spending to repair our damaged public services. Simon Wren-Lewis estimates that it needs to rise by around 4.5% of GDP eventually. Such an increase, as Simon …
On , by chris, 1,220 words