There has been much, appropriate, furore over the consequences of the UK Internal Markets Bill for Northern Ireland. There should be at least as much
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Government is very different when it’s not run for the benefit of landlords
It’s interesting to see how different government is if it is not run to serve the interests of landlords. I suspect that very few people
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There is a word that describes a government that publishes a law with 22 minutes notice
This tweet was published at 11.38 pm last night: JUST PUBLISHED: The new #Coronavirus Regulations for England, coming into force at 12.01 14/9 #SIWatch https://t.co/mdidWuKtf2
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A desire for sober economic management might, right now, be considered to be wishful thinking
Gavyn Davies has an article in the FT this morning in which he discusses the contradictory messages put out by the Bank of England on
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The UK / Japan trade deal makes state subsidy commitments that have to be honoured and may be more onerous than those the EU wants. So why is the UK planning to break the law on this issue if it isn’t deliberate and pointless provocation?
It’s always seemed bizarre that the right to provide state aid should be so important to a Conservative government that it wishes to break the
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The impact of the property market on the economy
The possibility of total economic breakdown is now within Cummings’ grasp
I just posted the following as a thread on Twitter, hence the way in which is is divided. The message is as stark whereve3r and
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We have to face the possibility that our government is planning economic destruction for its own political ends – which are the demise of the state as we know it
I have never made any pretence of my opinion that the post coronavirus recession in the UK is going to be ghastly. However, events of
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We now have what looks on the basis of all reasonable analysis to be a fascist government
Fascism does not gain power by way of revolution. Nor need it take to the streets, at least in its early days. That only happens
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