I must apologise to email subscribers to the blog who did not receive emails over the last few days. You should get this post as
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One million words a year
I was amused by this statistic sent to me by Grammarly, which is one of the tools I use in an attempt to cut the
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Welcome to Singapore-on-Thames, the chosen destination of Starmer, Reeves and Streeting
I admit that this post is not based on one of my ideas. It is instead based on my wife’s reaction to hearing Rachel Reeves
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Two million people’s fate hangs on the survival of UNRWA. Nothing else exists between them and disaster.
The FT has posted a very level-headed report on the work of UNRWA, the United Nations agency dealing with refugees in Gaza. In that report,
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Labour’s plan for the City is grossly irresponsible and could lead to a repeat of 2008
As the Guardian and others have reported: Labour has pledged to “unashamedly champion” the UK’s financial services sector, as it promised to cut down 10,000
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The days of the Union are over
Unlike many, I am not inclined to celebrate the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland as yet. I heard Sam Coates on Sky last night
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Freeports exist to provide opacity for the raking off of public funds for private gain
The Guardian notes this morning that: Taxpayers are not being guaranteed value for money or transparency at a regeneration project overseen by the Conservative Tees
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The UNRWA has been a force for peace and the good of people: it deserves our support now
Trolls have been arriving here in some numbers, asking for my opinion on the United Nations RWA, which runs the UN’s programmes to support Palestinian
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Glossary entry: the national debt
I am proposing to post this explanation of the nature of national debt in this blog’s glossary once comments upon it have been made. I
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