It is very hard to believe what the UK government is saying today with regard to its planned renunciation of the EU Transition Agreement with
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Is it true that we’ve made no progress on climate change in the past two years as Greta Thurnberg has claimed? I fear that it
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I wrote quite a lot of tweets yesterday. This one was, in my opinion, the most important: The modern state exists to create and uphold
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The assumption of a strong economic recovery from coronavirus, on which the government has pinned so much hope, and on the basis of which the
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George Peretz QC and I do not always agree with each other, most especially on Scottish issues, but as a confirmed Unionist he accurately summarises
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This exchange took place in the House of Commons today: Sir Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst) (Con) The Secretary of State has said that he
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According to the FT this morning: More than a quarter of companies forced to take on extra debt to survive the pandemic have warned they
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As Larry Elliott has noted in the Guardian this morning, the September rent payment day (businesses usually pay their rent quarterly) might be particularly stressful
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I spent yesterday feeling very angry. I’ve known, and written about, Johnson’s duplicity, lying and consequential corruption of the standards of government before now, but
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