The far-right Sweden Democrats is part of a four-party bloc that has narrowly won the Swedish general election, replacing a left-of-centre coalition. The SD took
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Couldn’t we do a little quiet or even silent mourning now?
I posted this on Twitter this morning: I understand grief. I get the need to mourn. But do we need to be infantilised by continual
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The liberal left
I was involved in some Twitter debate yesterday about attacks that have been made recently on what has been described as the liberal left, who
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Kwarteng is basing his policy on fantasy economics
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: In a week when politics is not meant to be happening the government has let it be
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Full marks to The National
The King’s behaviour already suggests that we need an Irish style presidency in the UK
We learned two things about our new king yesterday. The first is that Saturday’s rather unseemly indecent in which he angrily demanded that pens and
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Why isn’t the private estate of the Queen subject to inheritance tax?
I posted this Tweet this morning: I very firmly believe that the monarch has to be our equal before the law. This abuse has to
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The UK is very clearly in breach of the UN Declaration on Human Rights
I posted this Twitter thread this morning: Like many, I was shocked by the arbitrary arrest of protestors suggesting that King Charles III was not
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Welcome to the Kingdom of Charles III where dissent is not permitted
There have been two reports of people being arrested yesterday for protesting at proclamations of King Charles III. Both the protests appear to have been
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