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"We were once the richest city in the richest county in the richest country in the world". Why regeneration doesn't work.
There have been, in broad terms, three types of central government regeneration programme: Shiny Boosterism, Hugging Communities and The Big Party. They…
Jul 8
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June 2026
I'm sorry but if you build it they still won't come: the failures of investment-led economic policy
Everyone is expecting Andy Burnham to move into Downing Street and that with a northern accent running the country our long forgotten, crumbling…
Jun 21
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Simon Cooke
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When, for the kids, they tried to ban Dungeon's & Dragons: a lesson for today's politicians about moral panic
We are about to take away social fun from teenagers for the same reason that Patricia Pulling and B.A.D.D. tried to stop my generation from rolling dice…
Jun 18
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Simon Cooke
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Why do there seem to be so many mad and bad migrants? PTSD, mental health and the migrant journey
Are violent men more inclined to migration, are those who survive the ones prepared to be violent, or does the process of migrating lead to people being…
Jun 10
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Simon Cooke
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How being in a victim group (but not an actual victim) got to be so powerful. And why it has to stop.
The murder of Henry Nowak has brought this to a head. Not because his murderer was a sikh but because his murderer (and that man’s family) played his…
Jun 4
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Simon Cooke
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May 2026
Why is nobody interested in the real reasons Blair is wrong? Thoughts on responses to that essay.
Somewhere out there is a free market response to Blair, one that says yes to his globalism but rejects his big state techno-oligopoly.
May 30
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Simon Cooke
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Market Murmurations (and why supermarkets are beautiful)
What murmurations teach us is that all these ideas of how markets are guided or directed - as wannabe prime minister Andy Burnham put it, we mustn’t be…
May 22
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Simon Cooke
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April 2026
Freedom and Machiavelli's 'Armed Prophet': What The Prince tells us about how to respond to Militant Islamic Supremacy
We must stop believing that the mere fact of liberty and human rights will win, that we don’t need armed men operating in the shadows to defend that…
Apr 30
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Simon Cooke
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The rhetoric of triangulation: a Zack Polanski case study
A cynical inconsistency of political presentation makes it difficult to construct a programme for government that cuts through the aggressive…
Apr 28
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Simon Cooke
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The Six Second Rule. How Opinion Polling is overused in policy development.
What can you do in six seconds? Walk thirty feet, hit the bad monster a couple of times with your sword, hide, or answer a question about a massively…
Apr 19
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Simon Cooke
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Having half of new homes as Social or Council houses makes the housing crisis worse.
You don’t need council houses, you don’t need rent controls, you don’t need national housing regulators, you don’t need new regulations - you need to…
Apr 15
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Simon Cooke
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As society collapses we must know our enemies
If society collapses, it will do so because politicians, writers and priests exploit - for entirely selfish ends - people’s real concerns. These men are…
Apr 9
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Simon Cooke
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