I was rummaging through various links today and came to the UK Foreign Office White Paper on the Overseas Territories published in June 2012. This contains, on page 14, the following interesting statement in
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Martin Wolf has written for the New York Review of Books, saying: Austerity has failed. It turned a nascent recovery into stagnation. That imposes huge
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Will Hutton has developed this theme in the Observer this morning. I recommend reading it. One quote here: It’s insane to describe as “help” making an unemployed
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A quote from William Keegan this morning: A veteran of many past Labour efforts at seeking credibility, Roy Hattersley, makes an appeal for sanity in
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The City of London sponsors a web site called The City UK – which claims it ‘partners prosperity’. On its web site it is promoting an event at
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Mandela is everyone’s hero. But listening to music whilst writing this afternoon I am reminded that there were other South African heroes:

The Independent has reported: The Church of England is backing a bid for hundreds of branches being offloaded by Royal Bank of Scotland, raising the prospect
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It’s been said many times here before now, but it’s worth repeating as no one in politics ever seems to notice what Sam Brittan points out in
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I always take anything Patrick Wintour and Nick Watts write about Labour in the Guardian with a pinch of salt, but this has some resonance:
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