Why I wrote this Recently Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) passed a new code of conduct on anti-Semitism, triggering a new round in the ongoing discussions of anti-Semitism in Labour. Since then I’ve had several people either ask for my opinion on it, or say very complimentary things about comments I have made on…

This is an appendix for people who just want to see all the graphs together, without any explanation or contextualisation. If you’re interested in more detail, please read the other parts.

There is another huge myth that I couldn’t ignore when writing this: that Labour caused the financial crisis. This myth is different from the others though, because understanding the financial crisis is more of a history lesson than a question of interpreting graphs. …

Some people might be thinking “ok, so Labour aren’t actually bad at certain things, like managing the deficit or reducing poverty. But they’re still just not good with the economy — they’re anti business, they don’t understand job creation, they don’t understand the importance of world trade, and so on.” …

Another thing we might consider to be an important concern in how the economy is run would be whether the worst off are sharing in the gains. …

One of the big things we’re all taught to expect from a health economy is growth (in other words, an increase in GDP), so when we’re comparing the Labour and Conservative records on the economy, we’ll want to be looking at growth, among other things. …

Possibly the biggest criticism people make of the New Labour government is that they overspent, borrowing too much and therefore running up an unsustainable debt. Often, people assume that the debt has gone down under the Conservatives, because they go on about it so much. This is an easy…

A special series of articles. Everyone knows the story of the 2000s: Labour ran the economy into the ground in a desperate bid to win votes by giving out freebies left, right and centre. They caused a catastrophic financial crash, and couldn’t fix the mess they had created. The Conservatives…

Something a little strange seems to be going on with the current tory general election strategy. For all the rhetoric about how awful Labour are, they seem surprisingly nervous about the security of their own position as a party. …