As I say in my National column this morning: SCOTLAND needs to welcome migrants with open arms. Unless it does so, the economic future of
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If you listened to 10 Downing Street, you would think that the agreement it is trying to reach with the EU today is epochal. It
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Please accept my apologies in advance for this being a long post. Don’t be put off. This is a massively important issue. How we think
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This was reported in parliament last week: Blake Stephenson Conservative Mid Bedfordshire To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what individual investments have been made
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The whole of the West has a childbirth problem. We’re not having enough children to replace ourselves. Why is that? And what needs to change
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I thought this was worth sharing, from BueSky: The idea that there is anything exceptional about the number of people living in the UK who
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As Phillip Inman noted in the Guardian yesterday: How can the Bank of England avoid being a loyal and trusted friend to Nigel Farage? That’s easy.
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As The Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s drastically diminished aid budget is the “new normal,” the development minister, Jenny Chapman, has said, as she claimed
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As The Guardian has reported: A gardener and activist hired by the Royal Horticultural Society to help it reach out to younger and disadvantaged people
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