As the Guardian has reported: Nadhim Zahawi was rejected for a peerage by the Conservatives just weeks before he defected to Reform UK, Tory sources have told
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The disconnect between the UK’s politicians and ethics is becoming ever clearer. As John Crace notes in The Guardian today, Kemi Badenoch was in action
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As the Christmas break ends and reality intrudes, many people feel deeply uncomfortable with the world around them. The news feels alien. Politics feels broken.
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2025 was a disastrous year — economically, politically and morally. But the consequences of that failure are only just beginning to arrive. In this video,
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The FT has reported: The Labour party has lost about 100,000 members since last year’s general election, underscoring the dramatic fall in Sir Keir Starmer’s
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I was asked on the blog yesterday what the government could have done after 2008 to prevent the almost inevitable financial crash that I think
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I was talking to an old friend, Tony Groves, of the Echo Chamber podcast, based in Dublin, on Friday, largely because I was recording a
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For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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