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Financial Times - despite its city readership, it often has the most in-depth, balanced coverage of economic and political affairs, and it doesn't really toe any party line. FT commentators like Martin Wolf are among the best anywhere, and they have really good specialist correspondents (e.g...

Yes, of course you've got a point, and indeed I know a few blokes who look a bit like those in the picture I posted whom I think of as genuinely lovely guys (including some who are quite right wing). I also accept that, like many (most?) humans, I do form quick judgements based on what people...

Something to do with Arsenal?

Yes, it's a blog (opinion piece) rather than an academic research paper, but I cited it simply because it contains a relatively accessible (to non-economists) critique of the recent IFS analysis of the party manifestos, which as many economists have noted fails adequately to take account of the...

I agree - and lots of people in the economics world were slightly surprised by the IFS conclusions this time, for this reason - and yes, in so far as they haven't taken fully into account the kind of macro-impacts that Wren-Lewis talks about, then their analysis of the Tory manifesto would also...

Tenants in common is a better way of protecting his interests, especially if he's not married, and/or the two parties are putting different amounts of capital in, or paying different shares of the mortgage.

Yes, I've read the IFS analysis. The IFS have a lot of good micro-economists, but as many competent economists have pointed out, their current analysis of the party manifestos does not, for some reason, take account of the macro-economic impacts of the different spending and borrowing plans, and...

I'm not convinced: a) that so many of the highest earners would actually leave under a system with slightly higher corporation and income tax (in both cases the Labour proposals are for tax rates which are no higher, and in many cases lower, than many other successful industrialised countries...

At 62, I'm probably older than some of them, as it happens. I doubt I'll really have nightmares but, yes, there is something about that red-faced, finger-jabbing, "let me tell you...." mode from fat bald right-wing white men (of any age), that I find slightly scary, if I'm honest. As far as my...

You may be right, but I hope you're wrong.They terrify me.

9 Tory men of a certain age (out of 120 audience) grilled Corbyn on IRA/Brexit/Trident/overseas aid. = 29% of total Question Time questions. Luckily, I suspect that these kinds of people are not the future. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He was excellent. Very inspiring - a much, much better speaker than Corbyn. Preaching to the converted though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Once again, being an MP is (often more than) a full time job

General Election - New poll added 21/05/17 Government writes a cheque for the agreed value to the current owners. The value of the asset shows up the credit side of the national accounts, completely offsetting the cost of the cheque on the debit side. The national deficit does not change. This...

b*gger! No one mentioned leaving the Dingle market https://www.facebook.com/dinglefarmersmarket/

From a macro-economic perspective, (re-)nationalisation doesn't add to the deficit at all, so all this argument about how to pay for it is irrelevant. In the national accounts, the cost of nationalisation is offset by the value of the asset acquired. Additionally, all the future returns to the...

On a couple of your points... Whatever you think of Corbyn (not a lot by the sounds of it), he has by all accounts been a pretty good and very hard-working constituency MP. To suggest that being an MP is not a full-time job (if you take it seriously at least, and he does), is an insult to many...

But what makes you think the "Momentum rabble" themselves are in favour of freedom of movement? I might be wrong, but retaining freedom of movement post-Brexit has not, as far as I know, been mentioned at any point in Momentum policy statements, and without freedom of movement as I keep saying...

Yes, but the point about the single market, as HKFC and others have pointed out, is that you can't honour the referendum decision to leave the EU and at the same time stay in the single market, without accepting freedom of movement. There's been nothing to suggest that Corbyn has ever thought...

One would think so - there is a lot of social media activity around a 'progressive alliance' with a website suggesting who you should vote for in each constituency to get the Tories out. As far as the poll trends are concerned, a lot may depend on the wording of questions asked by the pollsters...