As The Guardian noted last night: Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection has been accused of wanting a “Handmaid’s Tale future” after
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As The Guardian noted yesterday: Rachel Reeves is under pressure to reassure MPs over the state of the UK’s public finances, amid concerns that the
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A balanced budget is a fiscal position in which government spending equals government revenue over a defined period. It is often presented as a mark
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The household analogy is the claim that governments must manage their finances like a household: living within their means, balancing their budgets, and paying down
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Conspiracies exist. But they are not secret meetings in dark rooms. They are systems of coordinated power operating in plain sight. States pursue power. Corporations
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This is from the Office for Budget Responsibility, in 2023: The message is, don’t be disabled in the UK: we really do not support those
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I have to share this from The Guardian: The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group
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Two charts from the FT this morning. The first shows something I have suggested for a while, which is that Farage is now flatlining when
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As the FT notes this morning: Tech stocks had a bad day yesterday. So did markets in general. Amazingly, markets apparently realised that AI might
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