I admit to waking up feeling tired, fatigued, and drained this morning. That’s not normal for me. I am usually pretty good at starting the
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The political system is rotten
It would seem that people in the US have rumbled the truth. The New York Times did a poll in the first week of this
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Was Biden right to warn about the tech-industrial complex?
Joe Biden’s swan-song speech to the people of the USA warned about the threat to the people of the USA from what he called the
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The toxicity of tax havens claims another victim
When I began this blog, if a Treasury minister had enjoyed the benefit of a flat owned by an offshore trust it is very unlikely
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My fear is that fear will prevail
As Politico reports in the USA this morning: Donald Trump has not been exonerated for his “unprecedented criminal effort” to subvert the 2020 election and
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If moderation is out, then extremism is in
Much has been made of Facebook’s decision to effectively abandon moderation of the sites it manages, and rightly so. The idea that politics is now
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Does the FT think there’s a Musk-insprired conspiracy against Labour?
I noted yesterday my suggestion that the supposed crisis surrounding gilt prices might have been created by those in the City of London who wished
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Is the City of London staging a coup against Labour right now?
As I write this, the UK government appears to be under continuing pressure because institutions in the City of London are selling their bonds, forcing
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Trump is delivering political insanity, or fascism, or both
Headlines in the Guardian and elsewhere make it obvious how dangerous politics is becoming at this moment. Just look at those that follow. First, there
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