If some in politics were to be believed Covid is all over. The right-wing of the Tory party are furious the last lockdown constraints are
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Amersham and Chesham will not be the last to note the phenomenal cost of Brexit
I quote this from the Guardian news summary email this morning: British food and drink exports to the EU fell by £2bn in the first
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Northern Ireland’s political instability is growing
It is quite extraordinary for a political party leader to last less than three weeks in office, unless the party in question is UKIP, of
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Starbucks, accounts and tax
I spent some time yesterday assisting the FT with a story on Starbucks, its accounts and tax. The FT reports my comment this morning: Richard
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The message from Amersham and Chesham is that progressive alliances work – and that people want them
I have been watching politics for fifty years now. In that case I should have learned that there is nothing to be learned from a
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I don’t want work to go back to normal
I have been thinking about work. I am aware that there are quite a lot of people of my age who do so, and decide
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Hopeless, helpless, and so useless
It came as no great surprise to anyone (and I would include the Health Secretary in that category) that it was revealed yesterday that both
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80,000
I noted last September that I had, slightly to my surprise, reached 60,000 Twitter followers. Partly on the basis of that the Institute of Chartered
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The morning view
This does not happen very often, but I woke up this morning, immediately picked up the iPad to review the news, as is my usual
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