As the Guardian has noted: New figures show more than 150,000 unpaid carers are now facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, as MPs, charities
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Bag of tricks
As disasters go, the Rwanda Bill knows almost no limits.
The Lords gave in to the Commons on the Safety of Rwanda Bill last night, as ultimately they must. Democracy is sovereign and if those
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Rishi Sunak is to blame for the inability of millions to work
Rishi Sunak has launched am attack on what he calls ‘the sick note culture’. I am, quite frankly, appalled. Sunak is one of the richest
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Badenoch’s spinning a totally fabricated yarn about the origins of the UK’s wealth
Kemi Badenoch was reported by the Guardian yesterday to have said: It worries me when I hear people talk about wealth and success in the
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The UK’s missing companies
I posted this video on YouTube and elsewhere this morning: In case the video does not show, the link is here. The transcript is: We
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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
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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