I promised myself a week to write. Yesterday, I did just that. The plan for the new book is now with three publishers and an
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I think it’s only appropriate to give praise where praise is due, and it was yesterday to Ed Miliband and to Andy Burnham for letting
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I was asked if I could provide a glossary entry on what is called ‘disorderly correction’. I wrote this entry in the usual glossary style
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I have said many times before that we are heading for a difficult autumn. I said so before most did. Andrew Bailey, who is determined
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What makes a successful Prime Minister? Britain has had plenty of political leaders in recent years, but how many have really understood what governing the
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The media appears to have woken up to the fact that there is a right-wing, profoundly fascist threat to stability within the UK. Events over
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This was the FT’s chart of the Brent oil crude price per barrel at the close of business yesterday: Now $99 a barrel, and inexorably
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As The Guardian reported in the last day or so: Job losses in EU manufacturing will rapidly increase unless Brussels stops the “colonisation” of industry
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Between writing blog posts, dealing with comments, doing some birdwatching, and fitting in the rest of the day, I did a lot of thinking, dictating,
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