Borrowed from Poems on the Underground (which was such a great idea until I stopped travelling on it more than a year ago): A Dead
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Our tax system is as biased as that in the USA, and all with the intention of making the rich richer
US think tank Problublica recently published a report that it said: demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair
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The death of our democracy is no longer happening in slow motion
I wrote this two tweet thread yesterday in exasperation at the contempt the government has for Parliament, and the role that the current Speaker has
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Is July 19 really the terminus date? I doubt it.
The Prime Minister has delayed the June 21 unlocking from all Covid restrictions until July 19. That, he says, is the terminus date. He means
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Fascism is close
Fascist behaviour in London last night as BBC reporter Nick Watt is seriously harassed by a crowd: Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from conspiracy-loving wingnuts, high on
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The world needs Covid 19 vaccines and equality more than it needs modern monetary theory
The biggest crisis facing the world right now is the lack of Covid vaccines. There are ample other issues coming on close behind, I concede,
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There is a great deal more to freedom from Covid than being able to get drunk in a crowd
It is extremely difficult to make any sense of almost any of the discussion on Covid right now. That is not because it is impossible
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I am ashamed of Johnson, and at least as fearful of what he might yet do
I wrote quite a number of tweets yesterday whilst watching the various press conferences that closed the G7 summit. The most popular was this: I
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How long for Boris Johnson?
I have been intrigued, and also amused, by the reaction to Boris Johnson over the weekend. Take this from Beth Rigby of Sky News yesterday:
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