I watched Stephen Barclay, who is our Health Secretary for the next few weeks, saying on Channel 4 News last night that the provision of
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The US Mid-terms are good news, with lessons for the UK
This quote comes from Heather Cox’s ’Letters from an American’ this morning: Yesterday was a good day for democracy. Americans turned out to defend our
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Cool, calm answers are needed on how Labour will fund the NHS
I posted this reply to tweets Wes Streeting posted in response to the questions I posed here yesterday on Twitter this morning. For those not
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Where the Bank of England’s going wrong
This is new from me on The Bunker podcast: Is the Bank of England working in our best interests? And what could it do differently?
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There is no ‘black hole’
Two excellent letters in the Guardian this morning on the fallacy of the government’s claim there is a black hole in its finances and both
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How will Labour fund the NHS? It’s time for it to place its cards face up on the table because nothing adds up right now
I was planning a calm morning. After minor Twitter storms over the last few days, I thought I would steer clear for a day. Then
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What depths has our politics reached?
I posted a thread yesterday morning about political alienation. Then Starmer made the comments that I referred to in another post this morning. In response
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How could a party headed by Starmer form a credible government?
I have the good fortune to rarely lose sleep. I don’t underestimate the benefit. Just to remind me of how big that is I did
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The wrong economic policy
It is reported this morning that Jeremy Hunt is planning a £60 billion package of tax increases and spending cuts to be announced on 17
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