Armchair Ideology

Musings on politics and ideology in the UK

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Why do schools still get kids to do so much arithmetic?

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As lockdown III rolls on, parents are once again getting a glimmer into their children's education. One thing I've seen some parents...

Why is the government always late to act on covid?

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As I write this, the government is probably a few days, if not hours, away from announcing another national lockdown. What's puzzling is...

On Aristocratic Populism

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One of the great questions about Boris Johnson has always been his apparent shifts in attitude. From a Telegraph bore/eurosceptic of the ...

Contact budgets, work from home and "letting the team down"

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I don't want to trivialise the potential harms of work from home. Clearly, there are at the very least some quite steep short term costs...

Work from home: some thoughts on the tradeoffs

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Thinking about the economic trade-offs in the pandemic, I'm reminded of a line from Marx's Theses on Feuerbach: " All social li...
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The pandemic and the public sphere

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One thing that's often missed when discussing why Sweden hasn't followed suit with the rest of Europe on lockdown is the legal dimen...
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Why do some Conservatives think they are marginalised, despite being in power?

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Chris Grey notes a trope amongst right wing pundits that has been bothering me for a while. "What is fascinating is this persistent sen...
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