I was tempted to write a blog entitled ‘I don’t know’ this morning. There were, and are, good grounds for doing so. No one does
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This time let’s make a downturn the start of something different
So, the UK economy is at risk of recession. No, that’s not, per se, a Brexit comment. Most of the world’s major economies are on
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HS2: dead on arrival
As the FT notes today: The Green party is calling for the billions of pounds earmarked for HS2 to be diverted into a nationwide upgrade
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It’s not just climate change: biodiversity is vital too
Once upon a time concern about nature was for people who picked up binoculars. Not any more, I hope. The latest State of Nature Report makes the
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Will Ireland blink?
There is a logic to what Boris Johnson is doing with regards to Brexit. It’s easy to spot. It is that by saying he will
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Johnson’s Brexit plan: a document without honest intent
I have tried to make sense of Boris Johnson’s latest Brexit proposal. I have read the documents that have been issued. And like those who
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Inheritance tax needs to go – but to be replaced by much better wealth taxation
The Independent has reported that Sajid Javid has sympathy with a long held Conservative Party desire to abolish Inheritance Tax. I understand his desire. Inheritance
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Fisking the FT on fiscal rules
There was a deeply depressing editorial in the Financial Times published overnight on the subject of Sajid Javid and Boris Johnson abandoning George Osborne’s fiscal
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Priti Patel: sickening
I tweeted this yesterday. I was sickened by Patel’s smile as she said she’d make sure she took away the human rights of people in
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