Hacks have their eye on Reeves’ biography entries again. A goldmine…
The Times says that, despite the Chancellor claiming to have written in the prestigious University of Chicago-based Journal of Political Economy in her official Who’s Who entry, there is no record of her ever having done so. She did jointly pen a publication for the much less well-respected European Journal of Political Economy, though…
Who’s Who entries are usually contributed to and updated by the person themselves. The difference between those two journals is compared to the classic University of Oxford vs Oxford Brookes lark. One was founded in 1892, the other in 1985. We’ve all done it?
University of Ulster emeritus professor Richard Barnett says “If [Reeves] is a serious economist she must know the difference between the two” and the mistake would see her job application binned as an academic. There have been numerous edits to Reeves’ biographies over the years – mostly to get rid of claims that she worked as an economist at HBOS. Didn’t catch this one…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”