As this morning’s Politico email briefing notes: British officials fighting climate change reckon that if each person in the U.K. sent one fewer email a
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Politics, corruption, walks in the park and the need for reform
The priorities of our government in the UK are now clear. They can spend more buying PPE that is not needed, and in some cases
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Scottish Labour’s contempt for Scotland
I was invited to sit in on a meeting of the Young Fabians in Scotland last night, where they were discussing whether Scotland could afford
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Not so much a Green Industrial Revolution, more a Green Industrial Sop
I suppose I should praise Boris Johnson for announcing what he calls a Green Industrial Revolution’ in the FT this morning, but I find it
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Scottish people want a Scottish currency after independence, so why doesn’t the SNP leadership?
Tim Rideout has drawn my attention to a poll that the Scottish Currency Group had included in a recent Scot Goes Pop opinion poll in
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The reality is that little England knows that it is sucking value from Scotland as hard as it can. And it does not want that to stop. And the chance that it might is what petrifies them.
As the Guardian and many other papers note this morning: Politicians across the spectrum have reacted angrily after Boris Johnson dismissed devolution as “a disaster north of
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Aid is to be cut, just when it is going to be needed more than ever
Slipped into the Politico newsletter this morning was this, which I have not seen in other media as yet: The PM is considering a “temporary
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Is there something that the government would rather we did not know for which they do not want to accept responsibility?
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme last night made clear how disastrous has been our government’s management of the coronavirus crisis. Anthony Barnett laid out in his
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The book I most want to read, right now
Martin Wolf’s list of economics books for 2020 includes not a single title I have read, and rather bizarrely omits the best seller – Stephanie
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