This morning Nigel Farage was making a total fool of himself when supporting Elon Musk’s utterly unacceptable comments on Jess Phillips (whether you like her,
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Democracy does not matter to Labour
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is now, as it was in Blair’s days, Labour’s favoured think tank. Half of its leadership from a
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Is Trump trying to silence the press?
A free press is an essential part of a functioning democracy. If legal threats close that down, what is left? This is the audio file:
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Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future
As The Observer reports this morning: Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid
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It’ll be freezing this Christmas
The spying we need worry about
Try as I might, I cannot get excited by the Prince Andrew spying story. After all, if China really wanted hot gossip on the inner
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The imminent rise of the kakistocracy
There is a headline in the Guardian this morning that says: And why not, you might reasonably ask? Next to that headline at the time
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It is possible to have a flat tax, or to have democracy, but not both
According to the Guardian, Kemi Badenoch said yesterday that a flat tax rate is an “attractive idea”. A flat tax is a far-right obsession on
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Does the NHS need advice from bankers?
Rachel Reeves must think the only job a government has is to balance its books. There can be no other explanation for the insanity of
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