The Guardian had an article yesterday headlined: I am sure that a sub-editor who wrote the headline thought that it was logical. It was not.
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It’s time for a reset, and Reeves won’t be doing it
When you have watched the economy for as long as I have, you have seen a stock market crisis or two along the way. I
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Speaking truth to power
I decided to call Donald Trump a fascist when I was on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning. That was a conscious, preordained choice. I
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On the Nicky Campbell show on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning
I was on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning, talking on Nicky Campbell’s show, with whom I seem to be popular. The question that Nicky
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The world needs to realise that we are at war with a fascist tyrant in the USA
As Heather Cox Richardson has noted in her Letter from an American this morning: The plan, as Vice President J.D. Vance explained in a 2021
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Tariffs are regressive taxation – so no wonder Trump likes them
Tariffs are regressive taxes. Regressive taxes are those where the tax rate decreases as the taxpayer’s income increases. In other words, people with lower incomes pay
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The rule of law and the far-right
The far-right is not happy about Marine Le Pen being found guilty of embezzlement yesterday. As the Guardian notes: Overnight, US president Donald Trump joined
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The battle for the rule of law is on
This is why we need the rule of law: If we lose the courts and the rule of law, this cannot happen. Trump knows that,
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Who is taking money from private medcine?
Every Doctor is a doctor-led organisation that campaigns to save the NHS, most especially from privatisation. This week, it issued this in an email: Is
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