Officially I am on holiday this week. I don’t rate my chances of getting much time off. There is too much I want to do.
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I was asked recently to comment on a suggestion made to a friend of mine by a friend of theirs that socialism would always and
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The following  letter was published in The Guardian last night under the heading: If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered
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Sixteen years ago the Debt on the Doorstep campaign began to tackle extortionate costs imposed by non-bank lenders in the UK market. As the campaigners for this noted
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Just a note of thanks to someone in Waterstones in Cambridge today, where I was literally browsing the shelves and noted this:

Larry Elliott has written in the Guardian this afternoon that: The history of EU negotiations is that victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat
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An advantage of living with teenagers is you get to talk to teenagers. By and large they get a bad press. Most I see are
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I was most amused by the concluding comments in a talk by Andy Haldane, chief economists of the Bank of England, this week. So much
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Eighteen months or so ago I helped launch the Progressive Pulse blog, of which I am the sole director. I think it’s time to give
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