As The Sun reported yesterday: ESTHER McVey has made a shock return to the Cabinet as Rishi Sunak’s “common sense tsar” tasked with tackling the
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Will anyone be held accountable for 230,000 excess Covid deaths?
This is the front cover of The Lancet this week: The article from which the quotation comes is by noted health journalist, Richard Horton. He
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We need radical electoral reform so that we might become a proper democracy.
There are three facts that should be dominating political discourse at present. The first is that both our leading political parties have collapsed into factionalism.
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Extremism and hate will feature in Saturday’s demonstration – because the Home Secretary has sent them an invitation
This is from the front page of The Times today: The story has been widely reported: Twitter produced the above clip. There are some things
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Neoliberal capital markets value dollars now much more than they value lives, including those of many now alive
As the Guardian notes this morning: The world is set to have been hotter in 2023 than in any other year on record, scientists have
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The institutions of oppression
The Tory’s oil licences are all about creating divisions in UK society and nothing at all about energy policy
As reported by the FT and many other papers: New legislation to mandate annual North Sea oil and gas licensing rounds will be at the
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Did people die from Covid because of the power of populist politics?
In the context of the Covid inquiry, I have had my attention drawn to a paper in the British Medical Journal entitled ‘How covid-19 spreads:
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How many lives would have been improved in 2020 if No. 10 had been more woke?
I listened to the evidence given by Helen MacNamara, the former deputy cabinet secretary who was in office as the Covid crisis developed, given to
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