A what if? for Brit politics fans. What if Johnson hadn't held parties, there had been no Truss mini-budget, and there hadn't been the spike in inflation. Would the Conservatives have won the election?
It's interesting that sociology, not economics, history or law, seems to be the discipline undergirding of the right. From Kemi Badenoch's intro to her new pamphlet
Brad Setser argues that the IMF's recommended fiscal tightening in China would make trade tensions with the US and Europe even worse www.cfr.org/blog/beijing...
China's central government has plenty of capacity to implement a counter-cyclical fiscal approach in addressing its economic slowdown. Net central government debt is very, very low.
Biden was obviously a far better president than Trump, but his foreign policies are failing. The Afghanistan withdrawal, restraining Netanyahu, the Ukraine war. This is under-discussed. www.ft.com/content/2bb2...
As he returns home from the US, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must deal with Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of winter energy shortages
I would, but the money's not good enough
Fancy running the country? The role of Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service is being advertised. £200k. Deadline 20th October. (I can confirm that Gus O'Donnell and Sharon White won't be going for the role, as they are on the panel) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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As I've noted before, any Hungarian officials who get involved in this (if it's a genuine threat) will be committing the crime of facilitation of irregular migration into other Member States.
The first chart shows voting patterns by formal education level. Shows, as always, a strong negative correlation with votes for the far-right. 2nd chart: Age cross-referenced with gender does also reveal a clear pattern. Middle-aged men had the highest FPÖ vote share.
Round and round we go. This is a very good discussion of naive unilateralism in the Conservative asylum debate.
The Telegraph's write-up of Jenrick's trailed speech does not mention the Good Friday Agreement, the TCA, or any of these issues. archive.ph/NoF3B