Political Calculus
Ben AnsellA Substack on the connections between politics and the economy from the author of Why Politics Fails.
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Donald Trump's Calendar of Chaos
Hervé’s finest, with a slight edit…
It feels like Spring. It also feels like December. The cadence of having Donald Trump as President has always been heart-pounding. Trump 1.0, as experienced from the relative peace of Britain, meant waki...
The Apprentice's Sorcerer
This is an AI-themed post about my adventures with Claude Code. I’ve been…err.. vibe-podcasting about AI in two recent episodes of Rethink, on the promise of AI here, and on authenticity here, where you can hear fake Ben Ansell. Ben AInsell...
My Minneapolis
I must admit that when I left Minneapolis in 2013, after living there for seven years, I did not expect it to take as much of a place in the global consciousness as it has since then. I used to jokingly describe Minneapolis as “America’s be...
Bloc Parties
So here we are. Over the past few weeks a new consensus has emerged about the state of British politics that I hope my recent posts have been a small contributor to. That’s the idea that Britain is shifting into a world of ‘bloc politics’....
Odd Ones Out
You know, they say you can’t influence politicians or policy-makers through academic work or blogging. And yet, since my recent posts on immigration policy and on Labour’s positioning on cultural issues, the Labour Party have done exactly t...
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Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, University of Oxford and Nuffield College. Political Economist. Author of Why Politics Fails. Long-suffering Crystal Palace fan.
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