The government announced its new ‘rule of 6’ yesterday. It is illogical. At the same time it announced it’s £100 billion ‘moonshot’ plan to deliver
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It’s not credible for the SNP to demand independence without a sovereign currency
I know I’ve said, many times, that it’s not credible for the SNP to demand independence without a sovereign currency, because the result would not even
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The abuse of the Northern Ireland is not the work of liars or scoundrels, because that’s too polite a description
It is very hard to believe what the UK government is saying today with regard to its planned renunciation of the EU Transition Agreement with
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Is Greta Thurnberg right?
Is it true that we’ve made no progress on climate change in the past two years as Greta Thurnberg has claimed? I fear that it
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A government that breaks the law ceases to have purpose or function. It is illegitimate.
I wrote quite a lot of tweets yesterday. This one was, in my opinion, the most important: The modern state exists to create and uphold
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We’re not looking at a V shaped recovery from coronavirus any more: we’re looking at a downward spiral unless policy changes, and radically
The assumption of a strong economic recovery from coronavirus, on which the government has pinned so much hope, and on the basis of which the
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Scotland should not expect a UK government to play fair if it votes for independence
George Peretz QC and I do not always agree with each other, most especially on Scottish issues, but as a confirmed Unionist he accurately summarises
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Are ministers who are also barristers guilty of serious professional misconduct as a result of the government’s announcement that it intends to break international law today?
This exchange took place in the House of Commons today: Sir Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst) (Con) The Secretary of State has said that he
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If 10% of companies who took Covid loans think they might cease trading we’re in deep trouble
According to the FT this morning: More than a quarter of companies forced to take on extra debt to survive the pandemic have warned they
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