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Professor Chris Martin on: Brexit and the City of London: A Clear and Present Danger
Professor Chris Martin, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics. In September 2011, the UK government began legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against the European Central Bank (ECB). It claimed that an ECB policy proposal was outside...
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Disability Benefits
The day after a Budget is usually a difficult one for any Chancellor, but this year, George Osborne has been subject to sustained and withering scrutiny, most notably on the failure to meet his fiscal targets and the shunting around...
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Graham Room on alternatives to austerity: Budget day lessons from Keynes
Nationally and internationally, economic growth – such as there was – is faltering. China’s slowdown has prompted falls on the Asian and global stock markets. The US Fed’s signal that interest rates may soon rise – and QE wind down...
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Michael Jacobs on high pressure for low emissions - how civil society created the Paris climate agreement
Michael Jacobs, visiting fellow at IPPR, and visiting professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, writes the story of how civil society mobilised to secure the...
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Dr Sophie Whiting on: 'The EU debate in Northern Ireland'
Dr Sophie Whiting, Lecturer, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies. The regions of the UK have varying experiences of EU membership; it is therefore inevitable that the BREXIT debate will vary across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Political...
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..and justice for all? Basic Income and the Principles of Gender Equity
Caitlin McLean, of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley, writes on basic income and gender equity Cross-posted from the website of the journal Juncture http://www.ippr.org/juncture International interest in universal basic income[1] proposals has increased...
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Dr Emma Carmel on: Game of Diplomacy anyone? Which country do you want to play?
Dr Emma Carmel, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences Donald Tusk’s decision to play ‘let’s diss the migrants’ is misplaced. It might have garnered him the goodwill he needs from central and eastern European member states to broker...
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On Ministers and Mandarins
The accountability of senior civil servants, and how far they should be independent of politicians or responsible to them, has been a recurrent theme of recent British political history. During the Blair years, retired mandarins muttered darkly of sofa government...
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Professor David Nutt on: ‘Psychoactive Substances Bill - Flawed Rationale and Huge Potential for Increase in Harms’
Professor David Nutt is a professor of neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London, chair of DrugScience.co.uk, and author of Drugs - Without the Hot Air. On Thursday 25 February he delivered the IPR Public lecture ‘Time to Put Science at the Heart...
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With record employment rates, why is working life not more visible?
This week official statistics showed that, at 74.1%, the employment rate is at its highest since comparable records began in 1971. Nearly 23 million Britons work full time, and 8.43 million part time. In total, we work in excess of...
