The FT has an article today that is headlined as follows: In those five words we have the reason for the neoliberal obsession with inflation:
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Question of the day: When should the general election be?
The UK is in limbo. A demoralised, debased, discredited, and largely defunct government is hanging on in office with what appears to be the sole
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Question of the day: Should Rachel Reeves’ book be pulped?
I think it is time for a new series of ‘Questions of the Day’. Let me start with a slightly frivolous one. It has been
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Labour U-turns in favour of vested interests, yet again
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Labour has U-turned on its pledge to create a Scottish-style right to roam in the English countryside if
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Viewpoint: It’s Scotland’s pound, and we’re keeping it
John Warren was recently asked by a commentator on this blog to explain his opinion on what he sees as the deeply embedded Scottish attachment
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Rachel Reeves has been accused of plagiarism – and those doing so aren’t talking about her copying neoliberal economic policy
Having written once about artificial intelligence this morning, it only seems right and proper to do so for a second time. As the FT reports
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AI is a massive threat to stability – but not in the ways the government is concerned about
The government is staging a conference today on artificial intelligence, or AI. It is worried about the disruptive capacity of this new form of information
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Steve Coogan on Keir Starmer
I liked this, because I agree with it: "I've got a big problem with Starmer.. I think its becoming like American politics, you can have
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The Tax Justice Network achieved a lot in twenty years, but right now it is going nowhere
There are moments, I admit, when I wonder whether it is appropriate to talk about past achievements. There is always the risk that doing so
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