The realities of the world we now live in are daily becoming more apparent. I noticed an article yesterday that made me reflect on a
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The government’s response to the climate crisis is to spend a little spare cash on cycling and walking and to set up a working party
This written answer has just been published by the House of Commons: Asked by Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) Asked on: 20 May 2020 Department for Business,
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Understanding the Bristolian politics of Edward Colston
This comes from Bristol Live in 2017: The white, male, decidedly privileged, elite. These were the people who were really tipped into Bristol harbour yesterday.
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Scotland is not amused
I can’t help but share this from The National in Scotland today, for whom I wrote on occassion: THE SNP will win an overall majority and have
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One per cent of Jersey’s population took part in a Black Lives Matter demonstration
I am known as a critic of Jersey. But that is unfair. I love Jersey – it’s a fantastic place. I have been a critic
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Mythbuster: modern monetary theory
Myth Modern monetary theory is just a bunch of lefty economists saying that we can borrow without limit and that tax does not matter because
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Dover is wholly unprepared for Brexit, even if Calais is
An article in the FT this morning explores issues concerning the future of the Dover — Calais trade route. As the article notes, at present
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The scale of the economic crisis about to hit us is almost unimaginable
The FT has an article this morning that suggests that there will be at least 5 million people unemployed in the UK once the furlough
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The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
Stephanie Kelton’s new books is only a day or so from publication now: As Waterstones says of it: The leading thinker and most visible public
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