FT.com / Europe – Europe agrees rescue package . Global financial authorities launched an audacious package of measures in the early hours of Monday morning
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A non starter for Scotland?
FT.com / Comment / Opinion – The unappealing choices after an inconclusive election. From Niall Ferguson: [I]f Mr Cameron wanted to change the rules of
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Back to plan A
Gordon Brown told it’s time to go as hopes fade for deal with Lib Dems | Politics | The Guardian . On Saturday I promoted
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Time for a ‘passport tax’?
As readers of this blog will know I have for some time proposed a ‘passport tax’. As I have said previously: The principle is simple:
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The Nasty Party might make me change my mind
I have been arguing it might be best for Labour and Lin Dems to let the Tories form a minority government in the sure knowledge
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I want to win the war against neoliberalism
Yesterday and earlier today I wrote on what I thought the election result meant, and what I thought should happen now. I suggested it would
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Take back parliament
This Parliament does not represent us. We demand fair votes now. There must never again be an election under this broken system. Please sign the
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In praise of Lembit Opik
Lembit Opik played a minor part in British politics. No policy can be attributed to him. His own party no doubt cringed, frequently, at his
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The message from the electorate was clear: they said “no cuts” and “no more neoliberalism”
Paddy Ashdown has produced one of the best quotes of the post election period, inadvertently, by saying something like “The electorate have spoken but we’re
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