As the New York Times has noted: Trump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime law the president has invoked to deport suspected members
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Does the UK government have a debt problem right now? No, except for the self-imposed one created by the Bank of England
Public sector finance figures are out today from the Office for National Statistics. They are relevant simply because Rachel Reeves is planning to impose massive
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Medicine is under-politicised in the UK
UK ministers are claiming ill health is over-medicalised in the UK. It isn’t. It’s under-politicised instead. It’s neoliberalism that is making us ill, but they
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Do you know someone with a spare million wanting to change politics?
I am asking for a friend. I had an article in The National yesterday that was headlined: I had this note in response from a
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The Bank of England is harming the country and there isn’t a single politician asking why it’s allowed to do that
The Bank of England has left base rates at 4.5% today. Whilst I maintain my view the interest rates in the UK are far too
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Torsten Bell displaying his true neoliberal colours
This comes from Newsnight on Tuesday night. Victoria Derbyshire, who is one of the best interviewers the BBC now has, was interviewing Torsten Bell, the
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Reeves is going to do austerity next week
According to the FT: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not raise taxes in next week’s Spring Statement, Labour officials said, as they tried to dismiss Conservative
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When young people can’t afford homes why shouldn’t they be angry?
I have admitted to being angry this morning. I listed a long list of reasons for being so. I omitted this, from the FT this
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With so much going wrong in our world, being angry is the thing to be.
Anger has a bad name. Too often, we’re now told being angry is unacceptable. That, though, is just the forces of power trying to impose
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