As the FT is reporting this morning, there is a growing demand from Tory MPs for the government to fix a date to end the
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We are facing wholly unnecessary economic risks and the only people to blame are the government
I have to admit serious Brexit chaos has arrived sooner than I expected. Empty super market shelves are happening. Exporters quite literally cannot export. Delivery
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If you aren’t seething now you bloody well should be, and soon
I published this on Twitter this morning, because it is true that I am in partial denial at the ghastliness that is, inevitably, going to
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Covid in three minutes
This comment, from Dr Rachel Clarke, who is a frontline Covid doctor in Oxford, made on BBC Question Time last night was simply brilliant: “We’ve
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The paralysis of political decision making has to be addressed or the climate crisis will overwhelm us
One of the things that should be obvious about the Covid 19 crisis has been how relatively easy it has been to get data, and
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Why the banks are winning from coronavirus
Government-backed small business loans may have kept many small businesses going in the last year, but they’ve also been great news for the UK’s banks, who
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How did we get to this nadir?
So, we have lockdown again. I will ignore the staggering incompetence for now of saying schools must stay open on Sunday and insisting they shut
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Covid time
2020 was bad and now the government seems determined to make 2021 worse
If there is an easier definition of successfully being in power than ‘making unpopular decisions, and having the ability to justify them’ then I am
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