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  • 6 days ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Andy Brown

    They say that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Which may explain why Donald Trump and his acolytes seem scared of strongly independent universities. It doesn’t do to have organisations teaching people factual knowledge when your government is driven by lies, arrogant boasts and bullying intimidation of anyone who doesn’t automatically agree with the latest propaganda.

  • 1 month ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Andy Brown

    Now that the dust has settled on the local election results, it feels like a good time to attempt a realistic assessment of their meaning. There are plenty of ways of looking at these results that don’t look quite so bad as we first thought, but here’s the spoiler alert – those ways all involve an element of self-delusion. That is a dangerous pastime right now.

  • 1 month ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Andy Brown

    We live at a time of great hypocrisy. Accusations of a failure to protect free speech are coming out of America thick and fast. Accompanied by some very determined efforts to suppress that very freedom. Outlets for independent thought, where it is possible to question the wisdom of Donald Trump and explore objective scientific evidence, are being closed down with a vengeance. And I do mean vengeance.

  • 1 month ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Andy Brown

    For over half a century, right-wing economic theorists and the politicians who enthusiastically implemented their ideas have been giving us all lectures about the benefits of free markets. Competition, we were told, was good because the hidden hand of the market would direct resources to where they could be most efficiently deployed.

  • 2 months ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Andy Brown

    All the signs are that new UK government is going to make the most important decision of its term in office in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, it looks very much as if it will make the wrong one. Now that Donald Trump’s trade policies have escalated into a full-scale international trade war, Britain has to decide how best to respond. The remnants of British industry were hit hard when Trump announced that he would impose hefty new tariffs on steel.

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