Labour lost

As Corbyn’s win is all over the news, it is difficult to think about other issues. So while watching the result I read ‘ Can Labour Win ?’ b...

Media myths

At first sight the research reported here is something that only political science researchers should worry about. In trying to explain elec...

Recognising the success of macroeconomic myths

The Conservative led government of 2010 to 2015 had a terrible macroeconomic record. Partly through their own actions they had presided over...

Do politicians need to pander to myths?

About UK politics, but raising some general issues about politicians and popular prejudices Paul Bernal has a powerful post (HT Chris Dillo...

Ferguson tries again

Perhaps stung by the widespread criticism of the way he treated data in his original FT op-ed piece, Professor Niall Ferguson has had anoth...

Blaming Keynes

A few people have asked me to respond to this FT piece from Niall Ferguson. I was reluctant to, because it is really just a bit of triumpha...

Don’t ask what lost, ask what won

I took a short break after the election, so I managed to avoid most of the immediate post-election analysis. But I could not avoid seeing so...

Oh what a lucky man

A few weeks ago I was having dinner with David Cameron. Well, almost - we were at the same restaurant but on tables at the opposite side of ...