This comment was posted by regular commentator Andrew on the blog in response to my comment on freedom this morning. I thought it worth sharing
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Tomorrow is not Freedom Day
The Health Secretary has Covid. The Prime Minister and Chancellor are meant to be in isolation as a result, but as usual have bent the
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Johnson will need to serve an appropriate sentence
This is why people have died from Covid in exceptional numbers in the UK, and why many more will do so, as yet: Trade used
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The country chose Johnson. The harm will last a very long time
Tea, toast and marmalade. A warm Saturday morning in the garden. And time to reflect on a week. A week when people in England began
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We’ll get over Covid when we forget about yesterday, move into today and plan for tomorrow
It seems like only yesterday that I was being told that Covid was no longer a threat, case numbers were minimal and the link between
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Thousands are going to die to keep Boris Johnson in Number 10
No one could think Sebastian Payne, who writes for the FT, anything but a Tory. He issued this tweet last night: The FT article is
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The only right response from the Bank of England to increased inflation is to do precisely nothing
As the FT has noted this morning: Britain’s inflation rate rose sharply in June, far exceeding expectations and adding to pressure on the Bank of
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The government has Covid and racism wrong. It’s also wildly optimistic on the economy.
I made a rare visit to London yesterday. It was only my second since March 2020. All present agreed that as we reluctantly accepted we
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The increase in wealth inequality during Covid is not an accident: it is a design fault that needs to be corrected
The Resolution Foundation has published a report this morning in the massive increase in wealth that the wealthiest in the UK have enjoyed during the
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