A reader on this blog recently asked a question that goes to the heart of how our economy now works. It was simple: who are
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The Financial Times has reported this morning that senior figures in the City are now complaining that the minimum wage is rising so close to
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Every year on the 5th of November, people across Britain light bonfires, set off fireworks, and burn effigies of a man who died more than
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The Guardian has suddenly decided that Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments about Black and Asian people on television lets them describe what she said as
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At the weekend, The Guardian reported an interview in which Kamala Harris said: I am not done. … I have lived my entire career as
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As the Guardian reports this morning: When all that’s left is the rentier economy — and in households that rent, that is the only interest
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According to The Spectator this morning, ‘Britain is frozen with fear’, or so its main headline for the day says. When, however, you look at
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Democracy really is under threat in the USA. Almost unmentioned by the media in the UK, it is grinding to a halt. This comes from
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Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build a privately funded $300 million ballroom. It’s being paid for by undisclosed corporate
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