As the Guardian has noted in an email newsletter this morning: Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with Greek prime minister Kyiakos Mitsotakis at the last minute on
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On fiscal rules
This turned out to be my most popular tweet yesterday by some way. It was inspired by comments from Labour spokespeople whose performance yesterday was
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Rishi thinks just let people die and that’s ok
From yesterday’s Covid hearing. Sunak is our prime minister. I think he should be serving time. Many people died too young as a result of
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Why a cut in inheritance tax makes no sense and why cutting income tax does
I posted this thread on what I still refer to as Twitter, this morning: Of all the taxes in the UK that Jeremy Hunt could
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The Tories are hooked on populist divide-and-rule tactics, and that has rarely ended well
In amongst the political meltdown of yesterday, one thing became apparent, and that is that the Tories are using populism as their weapon of choice.
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The crisis of acceptability for UK democracy might now have arrived
Yesterday was the most extraordinary day in parliament. Around 60 Tory MPs demanded that their own government deport people seeking asylum and a place of
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Esther McVey: minister for the promotion of indifference about racism, inequality and social division
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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