My Rise and Fall of the British Nation and The Shock of the Old are best enjoyed as real books bought from a real bookshop.
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Teaches History King's College London. 20th Century Britain, Technology, Science, War. History and policy. New book “The Rise and Fall of the British Nation”.
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A powerful and much-needed reminder that reducing inflation is always about much more than bringing down the rate of increase of prices.
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Whoever demands that we "do whatever it takes" and do it asap to get inflation back to 2% at any price for sake of cb credibility, might want to check their stance on the balance of capitalism and democracy. Latest op-ed for @FT
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"We are told that abandoning 2% would make Britain into a joke. There are plenty of ways in which UK has made itself a laughing-stock of late, but to use that as an argument for a radical and deliberately recessionary policy is to add injury to insult."
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It's publication day for OUR NHS. Thanks to my family, friends, colleagues, and the wonderful team at Yale who supported me over the many years of writing my first book. Available in all good bookshops!
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Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed
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A decidedly acidulated and very funny take on big non-fiction by
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Join us for the launch of 'When nothing works' at , a new book which presents an analysis of the UK's mounting economic and social problems, and the #costofliving crisis.
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🎟️ FREE tickets: tinyurl.com/35wuwa7s
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Looking forward to this!
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Empire & Nation: the past, present & future of the British state - free seminar today at 6:30 with @DEHEdgerton and @KojoKoram. First time these two have spoken together! Come have a beer, listen to this landmark discussion, ask a question if you like. culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/
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I said yesterday that David Cameron's ignoring of the evidence in his Covid Inquiry testimony was irritating. George Osborne's was worse.
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Yes indeed!
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A VERY helpful guide! twitter.com/ColinYeo1/stat…
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Thrilled that the legendary Martin Wolf has chosen #MaterialWorld as one of his best summer reads.
Doubly thrilled that he describes it as “brilliant”
Blimey!
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UK clean power targets are unfeasible, experts warn ft.com/content/cd177c
For a review of Labour's plans, read my latest paper here:
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'The Conservative Party is structurally different from the Labour Party, in that it has been intimately connected over the centuries to other centres of power, from the monarchy to the press, from business to the military.'
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Really looking forward to discussing 'Empire and Nation: the past, present and future of the British state' with Weds 21st June!
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Taking Back Control? Making English devolution work. with
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CEIP webinar, Tues 28th, 13:00,
@ciaranmartinox @jolindsay75 -sheldon
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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Hi everyone, just sent out my weekend update (its free). Talked about a few things--it might be a very good thing that Russia is having to send its KA-52s into action to try and stop Ukraine (yes they do damage, but they will be very vulnerable too).
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-upda
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A beautiful day for a 30th birthday outing to . Bringing together multiple generations of historians of science, technology and medicine to celebrate our research community.
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LIBROS| Presentación de Las desmayadas de Cecilia Szperling. La autora dialogará con Marina Mariasch y Andrés Gallina. Además, Cecilia Roth leerá fragmentos del libro.15 de junio a las 18:30 hs.Libros del pasaje. Thames 1762, CABA.
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'The Tories have also flirted with the far right in ways Labour could never dream of flirting with the far left.' ()
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