simon wren-lewis
@sjwrenlewis
Professor of Economics. Also at @[email protected]
My new (free) Substack post: 👉"Trumpian TACO Timelines: The EU Case." @BaldwinRE open.substack.com/pub/rbaldwin/p… Coming soon on LinkedIn as well. cc: @AdamPosen @DmitryOpines @snlester @scottlincicome @sjwrenlewis @jzettelmeyer @cepr_org @IMD_Bschool @SimonEvenett @ChadBown @lugaricano…
This is deliberate starvation causing hunger and malnutrition for the children of Gaza. Unbelievable. The leaders of Europe and our PM should be condemning this war crime unequivocally and stopping all aid and sales of arms to the IDF.
#GAZA: "it's worse than I've ever seen before." Starvation is spreading. What we really need is the ceasefire." On Friday, WFP's @CarlSkau, briefed journalists about his latest visit to Gaza. @UN_Spokesperson Listen ⤵️ #Ceasefire
Y'days post: Thoughts on the unpopularity of different approaches to tax rises mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/though… The problem with tax rises on specific groups, or general tax reform, is that public debate becomes about fairness rather than the need for better public services.
New post: Thoughts on the unpopularity of different approaches to tax rises mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/though… When the government needs to increase taxes, is this a good or bad time to do major tax reform?
As a doctor, it's rare to work in an era where a common disease- the most common paediatric disease- starts to vanish in front of your eyes 1/n
Trump did warn us about armed gangs terrorizing our cities, but no one took him seriously.
SACRAMENTO TODAY: “ICE”thugs tackled a U.S. citizen outside Home Depot—in broad daylight—while his wife screamed he has family serving in the Marines. They slammed him to the pavement anyway. Kept hitting him. This is the brutality Trump’s regime is unleashing on Americans.…
As I note in this weekks post, the US media has largely become compliant towards Trump. mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ancest…
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
ICYMI: Ancestry and Immigration in the US and UK mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ancest… If nationality is all about ancestry, then immigrants can never become true nationals. They automatically become outsiders for those with socially conservative views, which is what the right wants.
Powerful and frightening from Simon. The US is certainly on an authoritarian path and the UK is in danger of following.
Ydays post: Ancestry and Immigration in the US and UK mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ancest… If nationality is all about ancestry, then immigrants can never become true nationals. They automatically become outsiders for those with socially conservative views, which is what the right wants.
Ydays post: Ancestry and Immigration in the US and UK mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ancest… If nationality is all about ancestry, then immigrants can never become true nationals. They automatically become outsiders for those with socially conservative views, which is what the right wants.
I *very* briefly looked at Singapore's GDP/capita and it seems to be the same as London or NYC. So I think the really boring answer to "does Singapore have a magic answer on policy?" is: no, it's just capital city level GDP but the hinterlands are in a different jurisdiction.
New post: Ancestry and Immigration in the US and UK mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ancest… If nationality is all about ancestry, then immigrants by definition can never become true nationals. They automatically become outsiders for those with socially conservative views.
This is a game-changer by Israel’s most well-respected int’l legal scholars, including Prof Benvenisti who defended Israel at the ICJ and Prof. Shany who argued Amnesty was wrong to call Gaza a genocide. They now say Israel’s latest plans in Gaza “may be interpreted” as genocidal
[1] 16 IL Int Law Scholars, among them, Prof Benvenisti who was part of the IL defence team in the ICJ, warned that if @Israel_katz's plan for the concentration of the pop in southern Gaza materializes, it might be a conduct which falls under the prohibition of genocide. 🧵
Saying the forecast is always wrong does not imply that people shouldn't act on the basis of those forecasts, because they remain our best guess about the future. But the article is right about adjusting too often mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-im…
The OBR is always wrong. Making economic policy by forecast is driving Britain in circles. @AndyMacNaeMP newstatesman.com/politics/econo…
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) has issued a statement criticizing The New York Times Magazine investigative profile piece, "How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power." Read our response and find a gift link to the full investigation below.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dropped truth bombs on Channel 13 today: "In the West Bank, war crimes are occurring daily. Jews are murdering Palestinians. Burning them. When the Israeli government is responsible for them, the Israeli police shuts its eyes. "
Labour’s manifesto commitment to abolishing hereditary peerages couldn’t have been clearer. The twisting and turning to avoid this happening is worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westm…
Labour’s manifesto commitment to abolishing hereditary peerages couldn’t have been clearer. The twisting and turning to avoid this happening is worthy of Gilbert and Sullivan prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westm…
Small boats is an issue. But for the BBC news coverage of Macron visit to be entirely focused on that, without any mention of the nuclear deal, and no reference to his very strong - accurate - statements about the role Brexit has played in creating this mess, is a bit weird. But…
"There is still seething resentment within parts of No 10 and the Treasury at what they see as the self-indulgent fiscal recklessness of Labour MPs." @steverichards14: Keir Starmer will not learn from this crisis newstatesman.com/politics/labou…