An article by Helen Thomas in the FT this morning opens with :this paragraph: After this year, it is perhaps no great surprise that the
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The Tories and Labour are united in seeking to promote boring politics
I took a week off from looking for things to write about here and during that time it seems that the strangest thing happened: politics
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Ed Balls seems to think balancing the books is more important than tackling climate change
This tweet was put by Channel 4 yesterday: What does @EdBalls think about Labour’s ‘Green New Deal’ policy? ‘If it looks like climate change is
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If we want a decent society ministers have to take their duties to regulate, to tax and to stamp out criminal abuse seriously. Ours treat all three as unnecessary.
There was an article in the Sunday Times yesterday on the creation of what are being called ‘burner companies’. The links are in this Tweet
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What’s a better term for rentier?
I thought this thread fascinating and wondered if people here had any better suggestions to make since addressing what is technically described as rentierism is
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Sometime the whole corrupt edifice of the two-party political hierarchy in Westminster is going to collapse
I posted this comment on Twitter this morning: How did we get to the point where there is no legal way for a refugee to
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Another step on the way to global tax co-ordination
The Guardian has reported that: In 2003 John Christensen and I were, we think, the first-ever civil society representatives to turn up at a UN
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The demand for Scottish independence is not going away, however hard England tries to out obstacles in its way
I wrote these tweets yesterday just after watching the Scottish referendum decision. in the UK Supreme Court: I have reflected since. In essence, the decision
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Long Covid, again
I began talking about long Covid again last week. I had been trying to avoid having to take antibiotics again, having had at least seven
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