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Pre-Brexit, the Good Friday Agreement allowed unionists to enjoy the sense of being an integrated part of the UK, with no border between themselves and GB, and nationalists to enjoy

The other thing about the 'maxing out the credit card' political correspondent meme is.... this is what the 'credit card' in this case is for. 'Sound money' as some former

OK, I'll bite. This is an excellent question, not just a genuine one.https://twitter.com/Aiannucci/status/1317376147756371969 There is not a mechanism in place to write off most of each other's debt. There doesn't

Relative to where the government was at the time of the first lockdown in March, it seems much less enthusiastic about 1) doing what is necessary to stop the virus

This tweet made me wonder whether a particularly pernicious dynamic is at work.https://twitter.com/oldtrotter/status/1315586335156113408 1. Johnson fails to lock down early enough, partly due to bad advice, partly 'libertarian' inst

Here's my @guardian piece carrying on the campaign to set up a new Epidemiology-Macro crossover quango doing regular forecasts and policy simulations for government.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/30/covid-economy-bri

Extraordinarily one sided and misleading article by Beeb health correspondent here.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54228649 LoL the argument that even though 40k extra people died [it's substantially more than that, but never mind] th

Without some institutional encouragement, the BoE are going to feel caught between a rock and a hard place in identifying missing macroeconomic stimulus. The rock is that if they don't

As others like @jasonfurman have pointed out, it's also a policy that directly encourgages us to do something risky, without any evidence that our test/trace system can absorp the infections

Have you been following the debate on trans rights lately? I have, through @HJJoyceEcon and @janeclarejones and others. It's pretty disturbing. I am not an expert. And my sex /

This is another example of allowing political power to define the domain of objectivity versus subjectivity.Exactly the problem with the disapproval of news night.https://twitter.com/polprofsteve/status/1266052505542238208 Power is being al

Objecting to the core of @maitlis intro ['he broke the rules'] is to allow political power to define facts. That some don't agree on the facts does not make these