I noticed a report in the Guardian this week that suggested that insurance companies providing policies for drivers in Wales have noted that the cost
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The Tories have announced that they want to end self-employed national insurance contributions. Two questions follow. The first is, why? This makes no sense. Why
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I put this short video out this morning. In it, I express my surprise that our politicians only seem to think that what they call
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The LibDems have been the first to release their manifesto for this election. To support it, they have published their ‘full costing’, because woe betide
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In the real world, rather than in that of elections, there is data in employment out this morning. The Office for National Statistics has published
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In my main YouTube video for this morning, I argue that neoliberalism has killed conviction-based politics. The audio version is here: This is the transcript:
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It is a strange moment when an idea that you have promoted suddenly moves towards the political centre stage, even if Nigel Farage is the
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I have already this morning discussed the idea that the Tories have failed because people have realised that they have not delivered on their rhetoric,
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As the FT reports this morning: The Tories introduced the lifetime pension cap. Based on the value of a fund, and not just contributions, it
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