I read the Substack essay that Nigel Farage supposedly wrote yesterday. I use the word supposedly deliberately because I do not think that Nigel Farage
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Banks are closing branches across the UK. Post offices are disappearing. HMRC no longer offers local tax offices. Local authorities increasingly expect everything to be
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Why is it that by far the largest group in the population that supports Reform and other far-right parties is those over the age of
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I said I would be spending time thinking and that I would be revisiting my hastily written 2011 book, The Courageous State, when doing so.
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The Richard J Murphy YouTube Channel Debate Ammunition The need to stand and stare Funding the Future | June 2026 Today’s topic We need to
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We’re told to be busy. We’re told to produce results, meet targets, hit deadlines and keep moving. We are taught that activity is a virtue
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I posted this entry in the blog’s glossary a year ago, yesterday. My thanks to Simon Slade for reminding me. When there is so much
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The government and its former defence secretary, who resigned yesterday, have both claimed that the UK faces an increased defence risk and that, as a
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I am finding it difficult to write. The US and Iran are at war again, but we knew that was going to happen. I had
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