After a few days of disruption I admit to being on a late start this morning. What I did manage to do was follow much
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The Tories are fascism in progress
In the midst of Partygate and all that goes with it the possibility that the continuing passage of the Public Order Bill now before the
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We need a democratic and constitutional revolution
There are any number of ways of seeing the photograph’s issued yesterday of the party Boris Johnson attended on 13 November 2020. Denis Swayne MP
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Let’s face it: the Met must be corrupt. Partygate is really hard to explain unless that is the case
A great deal is being said about Partygate today. Those with considerably more legal expertise in this area than I have got appear to be
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The inflation we are suffering is by government choice
The ONS has published new inflation data today. The news is not good, although there is no surprise about that. This is the summary chart:
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Why did the Tories vote to support profit over people?
The House of Commons voted by 310 to 248 to oppose Labour’s motion to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas producers last night.
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The UK’s labour shortages could be solved. Doing so does however require that mistakes on Covid and Brexit be acknowledged. And so it’s not going to happen.
I just tweeted this: The UK's suffering a labour shortage. There are four causes. a) Covid deaths b) Long Covid c) People not working because
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Was Grantham seriously expecting anyone to be happy about their veneration of Thatcher?
From the Telegraph this morning: Seriously, what did they expect? Thatcher knew there was a such a thing as society, and she set out to
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The government might be paying up to £40 billion a year in unearned money to banks very soon – and will cut jobs and benefits to pay for it
Adam Posen, a former and still influential member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee has been arguing this week that the Bank’s base
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