If the hype is to be believed we are are at tipping point. There is no doubt that Covid cases are coming down, even if
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The same group of activists who recently asked me if Scotland could afford to be independent also asked me whether Scotland would be better or
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There are, I admit, moments when I find those promoting MMT deeply annoying. An occasion when this was the case occurred yesterday. The Gower Initiative
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I just posted this thread on Twitter in response to growing Tory calls for no tax increases now: Tories are now saying there should be
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I was talking to a group of activists in Scotland last week and was asked this question. My answer was an unambiguous ‘yes’. In this
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The Guardian has reported this morning that: The government is to introduce legislation that will enable academics, students or visiting speakers who are no-platformed to
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Margaret Thatcher’s favourite think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, has published a new report suggesting what they call a Northern Bang – aimed at the
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Colin Hines and I have this letter in The Guardian today: There is no better example of what Larry Elliott perceptively terms “capitalism for dummies”,
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I heard the UK government celebrating that it had given single doses of vaccine to 15 million people yesterday, and that it intended to deliver
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