This one definitely needs a language warning:
Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
The FT has reported that: Ministers are examining proposals to grant banks access to all of the accounts of benefit claimants. They added: Officials in
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Words matter
Words matter to me. They are my literal stock in trade. I write them and speak them to make a living. I endeavour, when using
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It is action versus inaction that matters now. Everything else is a sideshow.
The Telegraph has issued an email this morning that states: Ed Miliband’s claim that net zero will create hundreds of thousands industrial jobs is vastly
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Starving the beast
As the New York Times has reported: The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump
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The state needs defence from neoliberals as well as fascists
I note, with interest, that Martin Wolf at the Financial Times is descending into a state of panic as a consequence of what Trump and
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Elon Musk is wrong
Elon Musk might think he’s very smart, but his management style – which is controversial in the private sector – is totally alien to the
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Badenoch’s views are poisonous
I tried to find a transcript of Kemi Badenoch’s keynote speech to the so-called Alliance for Responsible Citizenship yesterday but failed to do so without
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It’s not the job of the BBC to edit anti-fascist comments
The BBC apparently cut several anti-Trump jokes from the BAFTA coverage last night. But, try as they might to pander to the fascist in the
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