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Times
28-06-2025
- Politics
- Times
Class still decides our elections, even in this mixed-up world
A few years ago, while out gauging public support for Ukip in a by-election town, I asked a late-middle-aged couple leaving a supermarket if they had ever thought of voting for the party. The woman seemed on the verge of vomiting, and looked at me with the kind of hate-stare you get when you ask someone if they can perhaps move their bags from a train seat so you can sit down. The man was more avuncular and just raised his two shopping bags aloft. 'What do you think?' he asked, displaying the Waitrose logo. 'You're at the wrong supermarket. Try Morrisons, or the Co-op.' A year or two before this, I had been snapped at by a very smartly dressed elderly woman when I asked the same question. 'How dare you?' she hooted. 'You should be looking for elderly men with no teeth on mobility scooters.'
Wall Street Journal
11-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Why Bad Economics Thrives
Regarding 'Notable & Quotable: Thomas Sowell on Tariffs' (April 4): Thanks to the Journal for reprinting the thoughts of a national treasure. Here is another gem from his book 'Basic Economics' (2000): 'Another reason for public support for protectionism is that many economists do not bother to answer either the special interests or those who oppose free trade for ideological reasons. The arguments of both have essentially been refuted centuries ago and are now regarded within the economics profession as beneath contempt.' Thomas Murphy
