#Austerity

I've been thinking more about the president's still-pretty-strong poll numbers on the economy, and they make even more sense to me than they did already just from the usual observation
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Thread:Back in 2015 I fought tooth & nail to get Corbyn on the ballot and for him to win. I did it because I was convinced a more radical socialist
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Uncomfortable truths - do not read if you are easily offended We are on DAY 13 of "full #lockdown" and we would now have expected the benefits of this strategy
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Agree with this: balance sheet damage will hinder recovery even when the virus subsides. But 20% unemployment in 6 months sounds wildly optimistic: we may well be there in *two
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Matt Haig doubles down as soon as anyone levels any provocation or criticism at him. I always used to defend him because his books have helped so many but he
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hey. some deflated ramblings from a lowly frontline doc here. Leave the back-house staff alone. Does @jkenney know what happens to the cogwheels of a hospital when you are short
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I’m sorry but has everyone lost their fucking mind. What about when parliament was illegally suspended and not only did no-one face any legal consequences the same government was voted
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The fun thing about MMT 'research' is that there is no there there. There is no stripped-down model to illustrate the basic point of whatever they're trying to say. If
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1. Lots of people on Twitter saying they don’t understand why or how people in Hartlepool can vote Tory, entirely oblivious to the fact that it is exactly that attitude
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My apartment is in an ever gentrified part of East Ldn, today on my run I'm shook by the no. of white & middle-class ppl out & about sun-bathing/ just
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Congratulations to @Keir_Starmer and @AngelaRayner on their election as leader and deputy. We look forward to working with you both to elect a Labour government that will carry out the
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THREAD: How we actually beat CummingsStop fact-checking with the belief that establishing holes in his Swiss cheese story is a gotcha. He doesn’t care. It keeps us occupied while he
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NEW THREAD: For the past couple of months, I’ve seen articles that purport to tell us the **real** lessons behind cross-country differences in performance in regard COVID-19—from “state capacity” right
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I think today's EU deal is another example of why the "bad equilibrium" view is probably more appropiate to describe the eurozone than either wishful thinking optimism or this annoying
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Government have finally announced £1.15b so-called rescue package for the arts, heritage and museums (where’s the libraries?). In a mixture of grants, repayable loans (Tories gonna Tory) and overdue capital
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The analogy of a country’s budget being like a household's budget is often used as an argument for austerity measures (suspiciously, only used against social programs, not programs that benefit
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