I wrote this more than ten years ago (with minor changes to tenses to suit the new context): Feral capitalism is the unfettered, wild form
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Britons should expect to suffer a more severe bout of inflation than other major economies during the current energy
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There is a small, but worrying, groundswell of opinion developing at present that suggests that the whole of the government’s anti-protest legislation is simply an
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Will Scotland hold the consultative referendum on its future that Nicola Sturgeon promised yesterday? Combined legal weight of opinion suggests that this is unlikely as
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As the Guardian notes this morning: The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers
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We live in a country where logic has departed from political debate. On Monday evening the government had legislation make progress in the House of
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They best of Glastonbury? I have always loved the sentiment of this song and the unabashed way in which it’s delivered here is brilliant. Not
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Johnson implied yesterday that the cost of living crisis is a price worth paying to beat Putin. But we’re not at war. Nor is there
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I have mentioned the fact that the last three days’ relative inactivity here has had much to do with taking time off to do the
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