The Guardian has an article this morning that is headlined as follows: Toynbee’s view is that Starmer has to play the grown-up and grown-ups can’t
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The World Bank has suggested that in the worst-case scenario, the conflict between Israel and Gaza could increase global oil prices by such a significant
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Was Keir Starmer’s Liverpool conference his moment of glory, just as Neil Kinnock had his at Labour’s Sheffield conference in 1992? A little over a
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I posted this on Twitter not long ago: So, why are politicians so obsessed with closing down their own, highly successful, safe baking operation?

I read the news this morning and thought this: I suspect it will not make one iota of difference. But I think it’s true.

As The Guardian notes this morning: After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony,
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As The Guardian reports this morning: England’s housing crisis will push many local authorities into bankruptcy as the increasing cost of emergency accommodation for thousands
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I have long felt that the UK has little future. Whatever once held the four very disparate countries* within it together will not, I think,
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My friend and Green New Deal colleague Larry Elliott had an article in the Guardian last week on what he described as the return of
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