Almost everyone agrees that we need more housing in the UK simply because we have – and are going to have – a growing population.
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Did the over-50s never pick up where they left off after Covid lockdowns?
As the Guardian reports this morning: The pandemic has caused sustained harm to the brain health of people aged 50 or over, rapidly speeding up
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How many lives would have been improved in 2020 if No. 10 had been more woke?
I listened to the evidence given by Helen MacNamara, the former deputy cabinet secretary who was in office as the Covid crisis developed, given to
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: restricting charity tax reliefs to prevent their abuse
The latest in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has been published. In this latest note, I consider the
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What we need now are urgent and significant interest rate cuts
How many English local authorities might survive their imminent financial crisis?
The Guardian has reported today that: “Out of control” increases in child protection spending since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic have put one in
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Was Rishi Sunak really so stupid?
Amongst the evidence from Lee Cain, Boris Johnson’s press secretary, to the Covid inquiry was this: The particular line I am referring to is the
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Without the combination of skills and conviction that leadership requires Downing Street failed us in 2020
The Covid inquiry goes on. I am under no illusion that Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings, who gave evidence yesterday, are objective witnesses. They might
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