Tory Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride, wants to slash the UK’s overseas aid to 0.1% of national income. That’s not just cruel, it’s racism and fascism
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The line “The centre cannot hold” from Irish poet W.B. Yeats feels as if it were written for Emmanuel Macron’s France. In the space of
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Having already asked this morning whether Reform’s policies are racist and having noted that most people in the UK think that they are, it seems
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As I note in my column in The National this morning (and I have edited the opening, very slightly), in the light of recent moves
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I posted another in the Quantum Essays series yesterday. In response, Schofield, who is a regular commentator on this blog, wrote: The big question …
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I noted this in the FT this morning: Kent’s local authority is likely to raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK has struggled
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The debate on whether Reform is racist, or not, is heated and the subject of many claims, all of which rather ignore what people actually
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As The National newspaper in Scotland has reported: Amnesty have condemned the UK Government’s plan to expand police powers to ban protests, calling the “ludicrous
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The Economist claims Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we
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