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A take-down of Doomberg's biased strawman argument against British energy policy
Doomberg is the most popular finance Substack, priding themselves on their ‘provocative’ and ‘practical’ research based on years of experience in…
 • Lucy Shaw
UK Parliament representation: what can Australia and New Zealand teach us about scrapping first-past-the-post?
Labour won by a landslide in the UK elections, taking ~63% of the seats in parliament with just 34% of the vote.
 • Lucy Shaw
Labour won. More notably, the Conservatives lost.
Keir Starmer is our new prime minister, in a landslide victory just shy of the devastating defeat of the Conservatives in 1997 when Tony Blair rose to…
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Canvassing with the Mayor of London
“WE ARE LABOUR” bellowed the cherry-red clipboard, thrust into my hand within minutes of arriving at The King’s Head.
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An ode to brothers – Hug’s visit to London
“That was a rough descent.
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Eat the Rich Part 2: no more [low-tax] carry for PE bros
The humble private equity investor is compensated in myriad ways.
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Eat the rich: an explainer on non-doms and upcoming tax changes
Get enough Harvard Business School alums together and one of them will surely bring up taxes.
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Kensington: “The Most Marginal Seat in London” and my new home
Next week, I move to Kensington – the “Most Marginal Seat in London” for our July 4th election.
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Who controls the land controls renewables. Maybe.
This is part two in a series about renewable energy planning in the UK.
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Convicted for watching 'free' TV
The BBC is the bastion of British culture, providing high quality news and TV shows to national and global audiences.
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Coal strikes and COVID
“The best part about the blackouts was that I got to talk to my parents more.
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Why do we even have private infrastructure?
This is part of a series on the Labour Party’s Great British Energy policy. Part 1 introduces the conundrum of whether the private sector is to blame…
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