Tory Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride, wants to slash the UK’s overseas aid to 0.1% of national income. That’s not just cruel, it’s racism and fascism
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Having already asked this morning whether Reform’s policies are racist and having noted that most people in the UK think that they are, it seems
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The debate on whether Reform is racist, or not, is heated and the subject of many claims, all of which rather ignore what people actually
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Are all our major political parties now the same? Labour, Conservatives, the Lib Dems, and even Reform  are united by one ideology: neoliberalism. Fiscal rules,
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Many people will have seen reports of an opinion poll published by YouGov yesterday, based on interviews with 13,000 people spread over every constituency in
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Something quite extraordinary happened yesterday. A state visit took place, with all the associated pomp and ceremony, and no one was allowed to witness it,
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Fiscal rules are not laws of economics. They are political straitjackets designed to stop change. Every Chancellor since Gordon Brown has used them to limit
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As The Guardian has reported this morning: Keir Starmer has sought to tighten his grip on his government with a wave of junior ministerial changes
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Britain now has a very strange relationship with protest. Some protests are treated as if they were an existential threat to the state. Others, which
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