Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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I struggled with whether to comment on the Conservative Party conference this morning. I did so partly because of this YouGov poll, which shows he
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As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a
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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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As I note in my column in The National this morning (and I have edited the opening, very slightly), in the light of recent moves
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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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The Economist claims Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we
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John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor? In this video,
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In the context of this morning’s video and a post yesterday, this jumped out at me from an overnight newsletter from the New York Times:
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