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Fifteen thoughts on the Budget

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By Archie Hall
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The best place, naturally, for a top-to-bottom read on how to interpret Rachel Reeves’s latest offering is the pages of The Economist—and I’ll pop in some links to my colleagues’ work when it’s up. Still, seeing as this is the first British fiscal event in a while where it’s no longer my job to write something up for those pages, I thought I’d freelance a little. So here are a few rough, day-of, impressions of the Budget, pinged over from across the Atlantic.
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Taking Reform UK seriously

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By Archie Hall
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Reading over the local election results in England, and polls since, one conclusion feels inescapable: Reform UK now has a material chance of being in government in 2029. That marks a colossal shift in Britain’s political landscape. I want to focus this Substack, though, on policy, not politics. There, the Westminster chatter around Reform still has serious catching up to do.
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Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state

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By Archie Hall
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Here’s a story that I’ve bored plenty of friends with, but never written up publicly. For an awful and surreal week last autumn, my parents’ dog was stolen. Oreo is the sort of creature for whom “lively” is at best a polite euphemism—an energetic, opinionated and food-motivated Smooth Fox Terrier. He came into the family as a puppy while I was at university. Now he’s getting a bit grey, but age seems only really to have made him mildly arthritic, not any more solemn or dignified.
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