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  The Machinery of Legitimation II

  How States lose legitimacy.

  August 12, 2026
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  The Machinery of Legitimation I

  How States secure legitimacy.

  August 12, 2026
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  The Haystack at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  The Haystack Hampstead Theatre, 31st January 2020 Al Blyth is not your typical playwright. Having studied Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, (disciplines that spend an inordinate amount of time wishing away the presence of us unpredictable humans), he went on to work as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal…

  April 11, 2020