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 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 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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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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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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To slightly misquote a poem: First they came for the Quakers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Quaker. Except I am
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The Trump regime’s fascist agenda becomes ever more apparent by the day. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that had this title: Of the
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To the surprise of no-one who has been watching what Donald Trump has been doing since he won the US Presidential election last November, but
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This is a brief follow-up to yesterday‘s blog post in which I sought to explain why, I think, Trump, Musk and the other big tech oligarchs
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