Might we safely say that New Labour is over? Peter Mandelson was arrested yesterday. Whatever happens now, he, his career, and anything that he thought
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I was amused by this tweet: I am sure that all of that is true. People are, I suspect, saying those things. But there is
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Bertrand Russell was brutal, but he was also honest when he reputedly said: Most people would rather die than think; many do. What he revealed
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We are being asked whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be eighth in line to the throne. That is the wrong question. The real issue is simple:
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Let’s stop pretending that Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain Party and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are running different agendas. It is already clear that they co-exist
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Phillip Inman’s column in the Guardian on Saturday made a familiar argument.  “Don’t be fooled by recent good news”, he said. “The UK economy is
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Politicians keep telling us the government must “live within its means” like a household. That idea is wrong. It is also dangerous. In this video,
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It was this sort of day at Titchwell on the North Norfolk coast: And this sort of day: And on the beach, once you walked
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To link to this morning’s video, I have published this new glossary entry: Health is the capacity to heal, by which I mean the ability
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