This is another morning when I have to struggle with the question of whether comments made at the Conservative Party conference are worth noting here,
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Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild
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I note this, from the Guardian: Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of a peace plan to pause fighting and release some
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This video has just been released in the States. The interview was recorded last week. The cover picture came from the dark ages of our
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I struggled with whether to comment on the Conservative Party conference this morning. I did so partly because of this YouGov poll, which shows he
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I posted another in the Quantum Essays series a couple of days ago. That one was about the meaning of life, negentropy, and the politics
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This article is by James Murphy, based on his recent experience as a young person living in London. It was edited by Richard Murphy. According
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The background The claim that inequality is falling is a claim that is often trotted out by right-wing commentators, backed by selective income statistics. It
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