Nigel Farage was at his very worst yesterday. As The Guardian reported: Nigel Farage has claimed that doctors are “massively over-diagnosing” children with special educational
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We need to think about the world after Trump
Who is thinking about the world after Trump? We need to do that because Trump is a temporary phenomenon. But what will come after him?
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What are we going to do?
I quote this conclusion from Aurelian’s latest essay on Substack: What are we going to do then? Well, we can start by acknowledging reality: the
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What sort of insanity is this?
As Politico notes in an email this morning: Starmer is visiting troops on the HMS Prince of Wales naval flagship [this morning] before it sets
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At a time when big thinking is required, we have the Winnie the Pooh of central banking in charge of monetary policy
As The Guardian notes this morning: Fears are mounting that Donald Trump’s trade war will hurt the UK economy, even as the US president backtracks
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Why do we want a deal with the thugs running the USA?
Every day it seems that we learn more about Trump. Yesterday, Vice President JD Vance gave us a clear insight into how he thinks conflicts
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The UK is not sustainable
I note this was posted in The National yesterday by my colleague, Paul Kavanagh, who posts under the name Wee Ginger Dug: It’s St George’s
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That Wile E. Coyote lull before the storm
I think there is a lot of truth in this: The people of the US have been run off a cliff. Trump has guaranteed that
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Why we shouldn’t be silent in the face of evil
However frightened we might be right now – and many people are, and justifiably so – we need to speak out to prevent evil from
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