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2023: This time the UK’s decline is real

2023: This time the UK’s decline is real

We’re becoming the new Italy

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Nick Cohen
Jan 14, 2023
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What follows is the best account I can give of a discussion among economists on the fate of the UK. It has not broken though into the mainstream media, despite being a matter of national urgency.

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Economic historians look at Britain’s dismal performance, and say that the UK has seen nothing like it since the industrial revolution. We are not merely in rel…

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