This was the full by-election result in Chester last night: Labour won with a swing of 13% despite already holding the seat and the former
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A comment on the blog yesterday referred to a valuable paper from the Hosue of Commons Library on how so many activities were nationalised by
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I took part in an excellent seminar yesterday on the role of the Big 4 accountants. Amongst those also presenting was Fabio de Masi, who
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I was at university in 1977. This was one of the songs that shared my life back then. Maybe it still is. Christine McVie, thanks
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UK House prices are falling. In the EU inflation came in at lower than expected rate last month. In the US there is just a
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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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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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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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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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