The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word 'social' in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn't about due process; social democracies didn't safeguard freedom.
For those on the left, who can never have enough social-isms, there is a more toxic prefix. If you want to damn something, stick a 'neo' in front.
Nothing is quite as wicked as a neoconservative, but coming dangerously close is a neoliberal. Liberals were once generally supposed to be the squishiest of centrists. But listen to the men and women making the weather in British politics now, and you'd imagine that neoliberals were the horsemen of the apocalypse.
Andy Burnham has blamed '40 years of neoliberalism' for the problems faced by workers in Makerfield, and indeed beyond. The banking crisis, low growth, youth unemployment, decaying high streets: it was neoliberalism wot dunnit.
✍️ Michael Simmons
Article | https://t.co/2wNnTXKfxT
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word 'social' in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn't about due process; social democracies didn't safeguard freedom.
For those on the left, who can never have enough social-isms, there is a more toxic prefix. If you want to damn something, stick a 'neo' in front.
Nothing is quite as wicked as a neoconservative, but coming dangerously close is a neoliberal. Liberals were once generally supposed to be the squishiest of centrists. But listen to the men and women making the weather in British politics now, and you'd imagine that neoliberals were the horsemen of the apocalypse.
Andy Burnham has blamed '40 years of neoliberalism' for the problems faced by workers in Makerfield, and indeed beyond. The banking crisis, low growth, youth unemployment, decaying high streets: it was neoliberalism wot dunnit.
✍️ Michael Simmons
Article | https://t.co/2wNnTXKfxT
Another senior minister talking as if public spending has no cost at all.
1. They're not "free". They’re funded by the taxpayer.
2. Another hour at school, away from family, does not necessarily mean a "better day".
3. It's not 10m "easier commutes". Many will be siblings.
A few weeks ago, @ChrisMasonBBC very kindly mentioned my new book, Ten Years On, on the BBC’s Newscast podcast. He also wrote some very kind words about the book, which appear on its front cover.
As we prepare for the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum, and with the UK’s relationship with the EU back in the headlines, do pre-order your own copy of Ten Years On through Amazon or via @BitebackPub. Out 23rd June.