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Morning all, Amidst… war, plotting and scandal a bumper week of economic data, there were once again (sticks fingers in ears and pretends war isn’t happening) nuggets of good news. I wouldn’t be surprised if you missed the latest data on private rent inflation. Happily, it’s not surging in advance of the Renter’s Rights Act with inflation on new lets … Continued The post How many pints does an hour’s work buy you? appeared first on Resolution Foundation
On Dubious Analogies President Trump’s supporters have offered some implausible scenarios on the likely outcome of his war of choice with Iran, as well as some wild justifications for it. But the most bizarre justification I’ve come across appears in Francis X. Maier’s essay “On Doing the Right Thing,” published by The Catholic Thing. Trump’s determination to destroy Iran’s supposed nuclear threat and its theocratic tyranny is justified, Maier believes, for the same reason that Lutheran theol...
When my younger brother, Rick, and I were boys in Pomona, California, our mother and grandmother would tell us now and then about their life in Shanghai in the. The post A Tragi-Comic Masterpiece appeared first on First Things