The FT has reported that: Ministers are examining proposals to grant banks access to all of the accounts of benefit claimants. They added: Officials in
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Words matter to me. They are my literal stock in trade. I write them and speak them to make a living. I endeavour, when using
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Donald Trump has declared himself King in the USA. He should take a lesson from history. King Canute of England, Denmark and Norway knew there
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This is just out as a headline in The Guardian: Blatant thuggery is so appealing, isn’t it, especially when dressed up as diplomacy? The world
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The Telegraph has issued an email this morning that states: Ed Miliband’s claim that net zero will create hundreds of thousands industrial jobs is vastly
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Most politicians are clueless when it comes to ideas. On the supposed left, few of those elected now appear to have any clue as to
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As the New York Times has reported: The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump
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The City wants an end to cash ISAs, and that would be a mistake. This is the audio version: This is the transcript: Hands off
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My Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines, has this post on the Green Alliance blog this morning. I reproduce it with his permission: The rise
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