We published this YouTube short this lunchtime: This is the transcript: Whoever is going to trust the USA again? For 80 years, the USA has
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Illth, wealth and GDP
The Guardian has reported this morning that: Higher consumption of some food preservatives is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer,
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The UK could end “shadowy maritime activity”
I posted this on Twitter (X) last night: I posted after listening to John Healey MP, our defence secretary, talking in the House of Commons.
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Is NATO about to collapse?
The United States is openly threatening to take Greenland, a self-governing territory linked to Denmark and therefore to NATO. That creates a crisis no one
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This will crash
We posted this YouTube Short video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: The FTSE 100 has hit new highs in this, the first real trading
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What Badenoch and Starmer have in common
The disconnect between the UK’s politicians and ethics is becoming ever clearer. As John Crace notes in The Guardian today, Kemi Badenoch was in action
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A politics of care will be needed
RobertJ wrote this in a comment on the blog last night (I have edited only very slightly, for presentation purposes): The problem [we have] is
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Glossary entry: sectoral balances
I posted this new glossary entry yesterday afternoon. I was astonished to find I had not written an entry on sectoral balances before now, so
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Are government debt and trade deficits linked – and does it matter?
I was asked this question on the blog yesterday by Anja Cradden: I have a slightly related, slightly tangential question… is there a relationship between
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