The Resolution Foundation (RF) sent me a very breathy press release / email this morning, promoting this: As they say: The 13 million working-age families
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Vote Reform: get tax rises
In the context of the post I have just made, showing that Reform voters are very keen to cut state spending, it is really quite
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The politics of destruction in action
As the FT reports this morning: A record share of people in the UK say taxes and public spending should be cut, according to a
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Desperate people
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on Keir Starmer to stand down yesterday. Maybe he expected others to follow suit. They didn’t. So why did
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The Royal speciality: creating PR disasters
I think I should make it clear when posting this copy of a Tweet that I am a member of Republic, which posted it, but
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The odds-on bet is that the royal’s days are numbered
Five days is like a decade in politics right now. Yesterday, the likelihood that the royal family will be dragged into real peril by Andrew
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The Hollow Man: Why Starmer is the ultimate neoliberal failure
Keir Starmer is being urged to explain what he believes in to save his leadership. That misunderstands the problem. This video argues that Starmer’s failure
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Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal
The morning media coverage suggests that Keir Starmer now has only one way to survive as leader of the Labour Party. He must, apparently, finally
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Rule by a single party in Westminster is no longer credible. What’s next?
Something tilted in my way of thinking yesterday afternoon when I heard the news that Morgan McSweeney had resigned as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
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