Martin Ivens

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Editor at The Times Literary Supplement

Contributor at Bloomberg Opinion

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Labour Should Admit to Some Hard Fiscal Truths: Martin Ivens

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Martin Ivens

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Labour Should Admit to Some Hard Fiscal Truths

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens

Rachel Reeves and her Labour government need to come clean with voters about the economic challenges Britain faces. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Kwasi Kwarteng at the Treasury.
In this week’s TLS

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens

Who won the war? We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies.
UK Military Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Fiscal Reality

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens

The UK Strategic Defense Review identified the country’s military shortcomings, but there’s little spare cash cash to rebuild the armed forces.
In this week’s TLS

3 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens

Francesca Wade’s biography Gertrude Stein: An afterlife prompts TLS reviewer Tom Seymour Evans to reflect on the “odd” disparity between the scale of the writer’s renown and the unavailability of her work – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas apart. Stein divides the critics like no other major modernist figure. Her radical contemporaries are accepted today for what they are, even if they are disliked.
European kindness is threatening the foundations of free speech

3 weeks ago | japantimes.co.jp | Martin Ivens

Britain and Europe have become "a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom,” according to Samuel Samson, a senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. His punchy boss further threatens to bar European visitors to the U.S. for "censoring” Americans online. Vice President JD Vance also condemned European "backsliding” on basic democratic values in a speech that outraged his audience at the Munich Security Conference last autumn.
European kindness is threatening the foundations of free speech - Martin Ivens

3 weeks ago | qoshe.com | Martin Ivens
European Kindness Is Threatening Freedom of Speech

4 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens

French philosopher Voltaire was a champion of free speech; Europe and the UK need to be wary of drifting toward censorship. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- veryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference.”This column reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
In this week’s TLS

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens

“The dollar plays a similar role to that of the English language in global commerce”, writes Edward Chancellor in his lead review of three books devoted to American financial supremacy. “Both enjoy network effects: the more they are used, the more others are obliged to use them.”
Will the UK's Iron Chancellor Melt Under the Heat?

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens

Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When does a tactical retreat become a rout? Keir Starmer performed his biggest U-turn in government yet on Thursday by promising to reinstate some pensioners’ winter fuel allowance (WFA), which he cut last July.

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