I am well aware that exceptions do not prove things. And the exceptional fact that Weston hospitalWeston hospital near Bristol had to shut yesterday because of
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The country cannot affirm the Johnson and Cummings debacle
The accusation against Nero was that he supposedly fiddled whilst Rome burned. It’s not certain that he was guilty of the offence, but the story
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Mumpsimuses: the word of the day
Too good not to share: It’s that time again. A mumpsimus (16th century) is someone who refuses to budge/insists that they are right, despite clear
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Consumption will not provide the way out of this economic crisis – but we could save for the planet instead
I predicted, very early on in this crisis, that consumers would react to it the way that consumers always do in situations such as this,
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The government is planning to bail out the most polluting businesses: now is the time for conditions to be attached
The FT has reported that: Rishi Sunak has authorised a bailout plan named “Project Birch” to save strategically important companies, as pressure mounts on the
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Has Cummings killed populism in the UK?
Let’s ignore the personalities of the current political debacle for a moment. The ‘who knew what’s?’ and ‘who was where?’ are not the really big
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Arrogant and offensive truth twisters
I think that the tweet referred to in this clip too important not to note: The UK Civil Service has deleted their tweet about Boris
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Why is the pharmaceutical industry suddenly so worried that Covid-19 might be being beaten by lockdown?
I watched Marr this morning. I thought I was doing so to watch the Grant Shapps car crash, but that was so predictably bad that
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There are pivotal moments in politics when credibility is lost: this weekend Is one of them
I share my house with two teenage sons. For reasons that may not be wholly surprising, I suspect that they have an above average political
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