John Harvey is continuing in his role as unofficial poet in residence here and offered this yesterday: Poets of the world unite! It’s hard not
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The New Statesman had a fascinating article on Keir Starmer this week. The key paragraph, as far as I was concerned, was this: Politics is
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Israel’s attacks on Iran are utterly unjustified, as I have explained this morning. One of the potential consequences of the attacks is that international oil
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It is rare that a newspaper like the Financial Times will think that there is only one real headline news story, but that is the
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Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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It is another day where there is much more to say than there is time to do it in. Trump’s actions in seeking to control
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As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the
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People still like to talk about having ‘money in the bank’. But they haven’t. They just have a bank statement from a bank, with a
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A sound of my childhood, remembered with gratitude. RIP, Brian Wilson. What do I most remember about Beach Boys songs? The total incomprehension at where
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