Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it
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It’ll be freezing this Christmas
Why are the Tories talking about flat taxes again?
Flat taxes are great if you want to increase inequality, crush government services, or leave large numbers of people destitute. Is that why the Tories
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Where it all began
I mentioned my first typewriter this morning. That no longer exists – being little more than a toy beaten into non-existence by over-use not long
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Get rid of the Royals and Scotland could be free
I was fascinated by this report in The National – the newspaper for which I write in Scotland – this morning: INDEPENDENCE support would rise
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Modern monetary theory really does describe how government funding works
I have already noted this morning the imminent shutdown of the US Federal government as a result of Trump and Musk demanding that the US
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Why aren’t people taught to type?
One of my colleagues told me that she was hanging up her keyboard for Christmas yesterday. There was nothing unusual, it seems, about Christmas break
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It’s time to end Andrew Bailey’s power-play at the Bank of England
The Bank of England did not cut interest rates yesterday, although three of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee wanted to do so
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Can democracy survive the amounts Musk can spend on politics?
Democracy is based on the principle of rule by the people – all of whom stand equal in the process. But with the money he’s
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