I should be grateful to GB News. They appear to be the only news organisation that was willing to carry verbatim extracts from Liz Truss’s
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First they came for Just Stop Oil
Occasionally I read something I think worth sharing in full on this blog. I did yesterday. It was on the blog of an old friend,
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The Tory abuse of freedom
As the Guardian notes this morning: The director of public prosecutions is appealing to the supreme court in an ongoing and expensive battle to overturn
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Welcome to Singapore-on-Thames, the chosen destination of Starmer, Reeves and Streeting
I admit that this post is not based on one of my ideas. It is instead based on my wife’s reaction to hearing Rachel Reeves
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Labour’s plan for the City is grossly irresponsible and could lead to a repeat of 2008
As the Guardian and others have reported: Labour has pledged to “unashamedly champion” the UK’s financial services sector, as it promised to cut down 10,000
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Labour lets the Rwanda Bill progress in the Lords
The Guardian has a report on last night’s debate on the Rwanda Bill 8n the House of Lords. Amongst the many excellent contributions made they
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The Tories are changing the law on water companies so that even if they fail the shareholders do not take a hit
In December, I wrote here about the need for a change to the law on the insolvency of water companies. I suggested a change that
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If the Office for Budget Responsibility does not disclose that its forecasts are total nonsense when it knows that they are what is the point of it?
I have already commented on the dubious accounting of the Office for National Statistics this morning. So, let me now turn instead to the equally
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We do not enjoy the public good that democracy is meant to be
What gets me about the fiasco of the Rwanda asylum Bill that passed the Commons last night, but which is very unlikely to pass the
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