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As you have almost certainly read too many laments about having seven Prime Ministers in (just over) ten years, and too many ‘10 years after Brexit’ pieces too, I’m not going to do either here. Yes, the two things are connected of course, but as

My starting point is not what Andy Burnham said but points recently made by Chris Dillow.

As I have argued in previous posts, the rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes. In many ways over the last fifty years people have become mor...

Popular discussion of inequality or poverty in the UK is often confused because there are many different measures of both. [1] Some facts are largely immune to measurement issues, like the fact that UK inequality and poverty increased significantly in the 1980s.

According to YouGov, ‘Immigration and Asylum’ was the second most important issue facing the country in May, just behind the economy.