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...managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and...

...managed to negotiate that appearance. And supporting speakers are often chosen to highlight particular themes. So we can learn both from the contents and delivery of the speeches as well as from who is up there on stage. While the political establishment in each party may well know a lot about a vice-presidential nominee, the vast majority of voters will not. This matters...

...manageable if its government applies appropriate fiscal policies. The big loss from leaving, however, will be political and social. Namely, losing EU treaty protection of important environmental, consumer, employment, civil and human rights. To these losses the possibility of Scottish independence should be added. The other expert invited by Die Linke, a lawyer from the...

...of his most loyal followers is not electoral triumph, but political and organisational transformation. In many ways, this interpretation rejects the ‘compromise’ of parliamentary socialism, feeding off, as it does, the perception of New Labour’s management of a conservative country. Originally published by the LSE Politics & Policy blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...