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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Without the combination of skills and conviction that leadership requires Downing Street failed us in 2020
The Covid inquiry goes on. I am under no illusion that Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings, who gave evidence yesterday, are objective witnesses. They might
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Is Cummings being trolled?
As The Guardian notes this morning: After four months of hearings, the official Covid inquiry reaches a week of hugely significant and potentially damning testimony,
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Arguments for relaxing bankers’ bonuses are bankrupt
As the Guardian has reported: The UK’s financial regulators have formally scrapped the banker bonus cap, removing one of the key reforms introduced by the
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