Yesterday, I noted the reckless relaxation of mortgage lending rules by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, which are bound to prejudice some borrowers and increase
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As The Guardian reports: Hospitals in England are cutting staff, closing services and planning to ration care in order to make “eye-watering” savings demanded by
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The news media would have it that VE Day is the most important news of the day. They might offer the prospect of a US
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There are moments when I think that we are just about, at best, clinging on by our fingertips to the concept of civilisation. There are
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Who is exploiting us? Large companies, banks, and landlords are, and not the people our politicians love to blame. This is the audio version: This
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Trump’s fascist agenda continues to progress. There were more signs over the weekend. First, there was discussion of a 100 per cent tariff on foreign-made
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According to a report in The Telegraph this morning: Sir Keir Starmer needs to stop “pussyfooting around” and make policy as decisively as Donald Trump, the
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In Australia, Labor won the general election this weekend by opposing anything that looked vaguely aligned with the thinking of Trump. Mark Carney did the
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The Guardian carried this story on Friday, and I think it is worth sharing in full, using their own summary box: Remember that we are
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