I have already offered one quote from my 2011 book  The Courageous State today. Let me offer another now as it seem to be topical: 
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My 2011 book, The Courageous State ended with several chapters that set out a plan, by issue, for for country I wished to live in
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This blog has been going for more than a decade. There have been more than 13,000 posts and over 100,000 comments, every one of which
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Sharon Hodgson MP has written a telling account of why she quit as shadow children’s minister in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow team. I recommend it. She’s
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HM Revenue & Customs has published new inheritance tax data today. This chart shows the proportion of the total of this tax paid in the
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Someone said yesterday that this blog appeared to have become a discussion board on the Labour leadership. I would argue that is merely symptomatic. It
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Clive Lewis wrote an article supporting Jeremy Corbyn for leader of Labour yesterday. It was candid. And as I know and like Clive I read
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I asked Jeremy Corbyn for policy and never got it. I have been severely criticised for doing so. I can live with that. One of
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I was just called by a journalist asking about the history of Wage Councils. I pointed them at a 1995 House of Commons research paper
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