Many thanks again to Joseph E. Stiglitz for sitting down with The Spectator last week.

The interview is now up on Spectator TV 👇

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Good. Prosecuting one's political opponents is a very bad American import: spectator.co.uk/article/the-da…

The funny thing about today's economy battle was that both the Tories and Labour seem to broadly agree on the economic narrative. But, of course, they come to radically different political conclusions.

Details on Coffee House 👇

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Personal view is no. The UK economy is not as weak as widely suggested, nor as strong as the “world beating” pretext often given to sectors/ initiatives. UK economy is dealing with sclerosis of old age, and unable to politically chart the trade offs. It is not alone in that.

✍️ 'Cleaning up his own party’s mess isn’t a vote-winner' | Writes Kate Andrews

Read the comment here ⤵️
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Rishi Sunak has arguably tackled the country's economic problems faster and with less pain than many other leaders could have done.

But undoing mistakes made by previous Tory PMs isn’t much of a winning narrative.

This week's Telegraph Business column 👇

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🎙Americano | Is the west heading towards annihilation?

🗣Freddy speaks to Victor Hanson to discuss his new book, The End of Everything. They ask whether the west should be taking note of history in order to avoid annihilation, and where the US is heading spectator.co.uk/podcast/is-the…

Should the Tories take comfort from Houchen’s victory?

The Spectator blog 👇

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🗳️ Local elections: Follow The Spectator’s coverage of the 2024 local elections here 👇

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What Labour’s wins so far point to in an election 👇

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Follow the local elections results with The Spectator here 👇
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🚨 Blackpool South by-election - Labour wins comfortably but Tories manage to narrowly beat Reform into second place

Labour - 10,825
Conservative- 3,218
Reform - 3,101

Just some normal 17 year olds saying normal 17 year old things. biteback.contentfiles.net/media/document…

“If I am ever asked... to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am… then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it” - Boris Johnson in 2004
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'Based on the OECD’s Economic Outlook, Britain and Germany risk experiencing the least growth amongst advanced economies, with Germany coming last this year and the UK coming last next year.'

✍️ Kate Andrews spectator.co.uk/article/britai…

Rebels serve Sunak with a prisons dilemma

Column for today’s The Times and The Sunday Times 👇

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Will Britain ever escape the low growth trap?

Analysis of the OECD's latest report on Coffee House 👇

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🗞️ Survival plan: is Rishi ready for the rebels, asks Katy Balls

✍️ In the mag:

• Will RFK Jr decide the US election?
• Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Trickle-down economics didn’t work’
• Alexandra Shulman: tennis is sexy again

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