What will Rachel Reeves do today? I have been reading about, listening to, and then watching budgets since the 1970s, and for all practical purposes,
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Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal
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I seem to be one of the few people the BBC knows who is willing to talk about MPs’ salaries, and so I did an
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I liked this from Paul Krugman’s Substack today, in which he discusses Canada: Just two months ago, Canada’s governing Liberals seemed set for a historic
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I admit that Sabrina Carpenter is a person about whose music I know very little. For all I know, I might have never heard a
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As the Guardian notes in an email this morning: A catastrophic security leak has triggered outrage in US politics after senior Trump administration officials accidentally
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By chance, given the subject of today’s video, I was on Radio 4’s programme ‘The World Tonight’ at 10.30 yesterday evening discussing fiscal rules. The
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Fiscal rules are works of fiction. They are as made up as fairy tales are, and yet the Chancellor is asking us to believe that
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Jamie Dettmer, the opinion editor at Politico Europe, had an article out on Sunday under this headline: The opening paragraph is: Turkish President Recep Tayyip
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