I noted these adjacent headlines on The Guardian homepage this morning: The message could not be clearer. The NHS and state education cannot recruit or
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When the right to vote is being restricted on the basis of race, income and disability are we still a democracy?
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Controversial rules governing voter identification led to racial and disability discrimination at this year’s local elections in England,
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The Tories are asset-strippers: no wonder nothing works anymore
Yesterday was a debacle for the Tories. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan sought to blame everyone but herself for the mess in the management of RAACs.
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Our parliamentary constituencies are gerrymandered to favour the Tories
As the Guardian noted yesterday: British democracy is being “warped” by an unfair system for drawing constituency boundaries that ignores millions of “missing voters” and
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It’s time the government really woke up to the renewed threat from Covid
As the FT notes this morning: Health authorities in England are bringing forward the latest Covid-19 booster vaccination programme to counter a potentially dangerous sub-variant
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Gove proves the Tories are still on the side of big money when it comes to the environment
As many report this morning, and as summarised by Politico in its morning email (which I recommend): Leveling-Up Secretary Michael Gove is set to announce
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The Tories just don’t care
I noted an article by Frances Ryan in the Guardian yesterday in which she referred to a YouGov survey that sought opinion from people in
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The trolls are out on tax reform – and that will not stop me promoting it
A wave of trolling hit the blog yesterday. It was easy to work out why. My suggestion for the reform of tax relief on ISA
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