We live in a country where logic has departed from political debate. On Monday evening the government had legislation make progress in the House of
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The government’s claims about the additional interest costs it is suffering are based on some very dodgy accounting
Robert Peston claimed yesterday that: Like many journalists, Peston has a habit of misreading data. He has taken this data, published by the Office for
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The fight against fascism is on
The Tiverton and Wakefield by-election results fall into different categories. Tiverton is at the stunning end of the scale. The largest ever by-election majority overturned.
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This is a supposed Bill of Rights? I don’t think so
The intellectual Titan, Dominic Raab, introduced The Bill of Rights Bill to the House of Commons yesterday. This is the first page: As I understand
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No one is happy about inflation except the government, and they must be because they’re doing nothing about it
I just posted this short thread on Twitter: As I have said time and again here and on Twitter as well as to anyone else
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The RMT strike goes to the very heart of political economy
When it comes down to it this blog is all about political economy. Political economy is related to economics, of course, but it is a
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When people’s own savings are now being used to oppress them we need to fundamentally reform corporate accountability
The UK has reached a moment when a decision has to be taken. Partly that is because it has to decide whether to continue to
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Venn diagrams for our times: ethics and Johnson’s government
We are fighting fascism
There is a problem that the British and US political systems share in common. It is the deeply delusional far-right politics that has in each
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