For those unaware of it, Labour suspended the whip from seven of its MPs last night after they voted against the King’s Speech because it
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Will Labour restore the right to protest?
I posted this on Twitter yesterday: Protestors seeking to draw attention to the desperate plight of our planet have been sent to prison for four
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Will this government do anything different to prevent another pandemic killing hundreds of thousands?
There was much, rightful discussion of the first publication from the Covid inquiry yesterday. There were also, however, too many claims made that the state
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The lies, distortions and abuse to come
In a post to this site in response to my comments on the assassination attempt on Trump that I treated as spam and which did
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Labour could end much child poverty overnight. It won’t because it favours the wealthy instead. And that is unforgivable.
Larry Elliott has an article in the Guardian today with this heading: As Larry says: The first real test of Labour’s hardline approach to public
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Labour could demand that every business declare who it actually is
I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that there is still massive opacity available to businesses in the UK, many of
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Labour could change our libel laws
I have this morning published another video in my series on what Labour could do almost costlessly now that it is in office. In it,
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Private equity capitalists will be laughing themselves all the way to the bank tonight
The FT includes an article this morning that suggests: Ownership of UK water companies has long been the preserve of specialist infrastructure investors attracted to
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Selling England by the Pound
The news that Labour is planning to use some form of private finance initiative to supposedly revive the UK, which I have discussed this morning,
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