Day 2. Yesterday was not fun, and the night was feverish. So there won’t be much going on today. By and large I am going
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I have Covid and it certainly having an impact. I won’t be blogging today.

Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial services company, issued a press release yesterday saying this: Where the cost-of-living crisis is hitting hardest Right now, across the UK,
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Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to make a speech at the Resolution Foundation today. According to the Guardian: Reeves will say a Labour government
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I just tweeted this: As Robert Kennedy once said: The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of
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This is from the FT this morning: Spain became the largest eurozone country to impose a windfall tax on banks in a sign of European
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From my Twitter account:

Boris Johnson’s government denied a Labour request for a vote of no confidence in it yesterday. This matters. A government has to be able to
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Britain’s retailers are suffering the sharpest drop in spending since the depths of the coronavirus pandemic as hard-pressed consumers
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