As the FT notes this morning: Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to slash spending on Britain’s “broken” and “indefensible” health-related welfare system, which is costing
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Ministers have left the door open to a humiliating U-turn on their highly contentious plans to cut benefits for disabled people,
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Aleksandar Vučić, the President of Serbia, is a politician with a dubious political past and a none too attractive political present. He is an authoritarian,
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Donald Trump has made many claims about himself, but when a person reaches his age, it is the facts that tend to matter more than
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Elon Musk says empathy is threatening civilisation. He’s wrong. He is that threat. What’s worse though is that his threat is totally consistent with neoliberal
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Wes Streeting, Labour’s health minister, whose remit only effectively extends to England, said last night that the NHS was full of brilliant people who were
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There is well over $200 billion of Russian money in Europe and the UK that could be used to help the Ukraine, but our politicians
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Apart from the creation of chaos from which he hopes his oligarch friends might prosper, and the chance that he might avoid prison, it is
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Trump’s claim that he wishes Canada to be the 51st state of the USA has to be taken seriously, but what it threatens is a
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