Lost amongst yesterday’s Northern Ireland deal was Keir Starmer’s speech on how he is going to deliver the highest rate of growth in the G7
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Is the Tory right broken?
The video in this tweet is interesting. There we were thinking Steve Baker had only changed his facial hair… Instead it turns out he’s had
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Sunak puts the DUP between a rock and a hard place
Sunak has, as everyone expected, got a deal on Northern Ireland. Let me not be churlish. It is a better deal than I expected. He
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The Tories have promoted poverty as part of their political agenda. What will Starmer say about this today? Or is he into trickle down?
I share this tweet because it provides a lot of underlying links to work on poverty in the UK and I am in a bit
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Cleaning up Sunak and Johnson’s mess
Rishi Sunak will hope he gets a deal on Northern Ireland today. So do I. Most especially for the people of Northern Ireland. It is
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Additions to the glossary
am aware that I said I wanted a day off yesterday, but I watched slow television on BBC4 last night and added a pile of
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Keir Starmer’s ‘template-based strategy’ is straight out of the management consultants’ copybook
I admit that after a week in which I wrote at least 25,000 words, I feel like a Saturday off. However, yesterday long-term commentator on
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Base money and central bank reserve accounts
I was hoping to spend a much time on the glossary this week as I did last, but a tsunami of other work has meant
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When there is so much need for new thinking – and when that thinking is available – we get an offering as bad as the one Labour put on the table yesterday
Keir Starmer launched a new Labour policy initiative yesterday. It managed 20 seconds on Channel 4 news, below the SNP leadership election. And there was
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