I worry about politics. In the US yesterday, a pro-Trump candidate defeated the pretty far-right US Senator Liz Cheney in the Republican primary for Wyoming,
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Energy company profits are grotesque
From the UN General Secretary: The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.
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It seems that Sunak might want to ‘re-educate’ me
I have posted this thread on Twitter: In 2016 I took my sons, then in their mid-teens, to Munich on holiday. We had a great
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We are in a very dangerous place
I believe in democracy. And the Tory party leadership campaign is the perfect explanation for why we need the widest possible franchise of those able
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US banks are learning a lesson in failing to keep appropriate records: it’s a shame our dodgy government is not being required to do so as well
As the FT notes in an email this morning: As Brooke Masters writes in this week’s column, governments and companies have long known they must capture important communications for
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Freeports are a threat to democracy in the hands of Sunak and Truss
In advance of tonight’s debate between Sunak and Truss a thread on a subject that I think might come up – which is freeports: I
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How long for Johnson?
We know Johnson is going. What we also know is that he is doing so because his party no longer wants him. They’d even prefer
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Truss wants to undermine public goods
According to Politico this morning: In an interview with The Times, Tory leadership contender Liz Truss says that Britain faces a “pivotal moment” and must
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Is it any surprise that tensions in labour markets are rising?
As the Office for National Statistics has noted this morning: Real wages are falling fast. That is the message from the ONS today. The message
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