In the post here on Friday about the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s use of the £148 million of funding that they
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Labour lets the Rwanda Bill progress in the Lords
The Guardian has a report on last night’s debate on the Rwanda Bill 8n the House of Lords. Amongst the many excellent contributions made they
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There’s a Starmer, waiting on high
The neoliberal attack on the power of government to transform lives can be seen in the collapse of local government in the UK
As the Guardian reports this morning Once vanishingly rare, the prospect English local authorities might go bust now offers no surprise: four councils have in
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Labour is on the wrong side on Gaza, as on almost everything else
As the Guardian has reported: The Labour MP Kate Osamor has had the whip suspended while she is investigated for saying Gaza should be remembered as a
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Does Labour know what England and the other countries of the UK are, and if it does not, how can it hope to rule successfully?
I went to see the National Theatre production of ‘Dear England’ at a cinema in Cambridge yesterday, and it has been hard to think about
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East Anglian Sunday morning
Whilst out doing a bird count at the Kingfisher Bridge Nature Reserve this morning: I also noticed this: I had wondered why one part of
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Of course the Post Office needs new leadership – but the government has to recognise that what is required is someone skilled in public service delivery, not supposed maximisation
As the Guardian reports this morning: The chair of the Post Office has been dismissed by the government as the state-owned company reels from the Horizon IT
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Whichever way the issue is looked at, to suggest that markets are rational is wrong
As is noted in the FT this morning: A week ago, the main US stocks benchmark, the S&P 500, cracked through to a record high,
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