The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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Gordon Brown’s answer to poverty in the UK is to appeal to charity. When Labour looks like it will have a massive majority soon that is pathetic.
Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, had an article in the Guardian newspaper yesterday that plumbed new depths for the Labour Party. Brown acknowledged
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The NHS could be and should be, well funded so that it might deliver for the people of this country. That it does not do so is a result of Tory policy choice, not necessity
The NHS is under threat today, precisely because it is failing to deliver what the people of this country expect of it. A report in
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Can we really claim to be a democracy when the government very clearly does not care if people can vote?
This report was published last Thursday, but I missed it then and it is no less relevant this morning: As many as eight million people
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Genocide cannot be condoned, whoever does it
This post on Twitter was made yesterday by this person: He is the director of the UN aid agency in Gaza. It is the only
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The Tories have gone nuclear
I liked this from Adam Payne at Politics Home this morning: Many Conservative MPs will remember this “bleak” week as the moment when they truly gave
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Gove is following Goebbels’ advice
The government has published its new definition of extremism this morning. It says of this: The new definition provides a stricter characterisation that government can
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Gove’s dream
As the Guardian reports this morning: Thailand’s election body has said it will seek the dissolution of a pro-reform party that won the most votes in
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The Tory view of British values
Rishi Sunak spoke yesterday of the need for the government, police and others to stand up against those who oppose British values. But, just what
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