I have noted in a mail from The Telegraph this morning thay they say: Britain must save more money to boost the economy through a
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The UK does not have a national debt but does instead offer a range of national savings products
My evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs committee on the sustainability of the UK’s national debt is now available on the parliamentary website;
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Gove is following Goebbels’ advice
The government has published its new definition of extremism this morning. It says of this: The new definition provides a stricter characterisation that government can
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Losing hope that we can make it through this mess
I asked, earlier this week, if the centre of UK politics can hold, quoting poet William Butler Yeats. As readers of this blog will know,
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Gove’s dream
As the Guardian reports this morning: Thailand’s election body has said it will seek the dissolution of a pro-reform party that won the most votes in
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Quieter time
I promised myself a thinking week, but my posts yesterday generated well over 100 comments, one or two of which implied irritation at my delay
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£10 million of private donations to a political party are corrupting
A person made rich by Tory NHS outsourcing contracts yesterday appeared to admit saying: It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott
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Is this place fair to me?
I accused Rachael Reeves yesterday of finding it ‘really difficult to make any decisions when [she] lacks a moral compass, a political philosophy, and any
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The curse of rentierism
I explored some of the ideas that I might wish to challenge in a new book, yesterday. As I suggested I might, I then spent
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