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Continue reading →: The Overton Window: When Perception Moves Faster Than Politics“The Overton Window is a concept that describes the range of political ideas considered acceptable in public debate at a given time.“ I’ve been seeing the phrase “The Overton Window has moved” quite a lot recently and it’s never sat quite right with me. I always felt that it didn’t…
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Continue reading →: Community Wealth Building:A Good Idea – But one the SNP may fail to deliver The new Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill has recently passed through the Scottish Parliament, and it has done so with remarkably little fanfare. Which is a shame, as I think it is, in principle, a genuinely good idea…
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Continue reading →: A Tax-Free Floor: Why £20k Isn’t RadicalStop Taxing Subsistence: Rethinking the Personal Allowance A few weeks ago, there was a flurry of media noise around Reform’s proposal to raise the personal allowance to £20,000. There was very little detail behind it, but the usual suspects were wheeled out, and the same old models were used to…
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Continue reading →: We All Love Free Trade… Don’t We?How the UK–US pharmaceuticals deal shifts costs onto the NHS I’m writing this partly out of surprise. Not because the deal itself is automatically indefensible, but because it was agreed by a Labour government. At first glance, it feels counter-intuitive, not in economic terms, but in political ones. This is…
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Continue reading →: Zero-Hour Contracts Aren’t a One-Way StreetAs a parent, having watched my kids do various part-time jobs on minimum wage, I’ve seen how fragile “flexibility” can be. Yes, they are young, but they still have rent and bills to pay. More than once, I’ve watched their employers expect them to turn up at a moment’s notice,…
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This blog grew out of a simple frustration: the gap between real life and the way it’s reported. I’m less interested in headlines than in the framing, assumptions and narratives behind them. I write about the space between noise and nuance, and why the middle is generally where the truth is found.
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