Having already asked this morning whether Reform’s policies are racist and having noted that most people in the UK think that they are, it seems
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As I note in my column in The National this morning (and I have edited the opening, very slightly), in the light of recent moves
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The debate on whether Reform is racist, or not, is heated and the subject of many claims, all of which rather ignore what people actually
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The Economist claims Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we
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John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society asked a question that still matters: how can we live with private luxury alongside public squalor? In this video,
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In the context of this morning’s video and a post yesterday, this jumped out at me from an overnight newsletter from the New York Times:
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Chris Hedges has warned us: ‘fascists mean what they say’. Donald Trump has now issued NSPM-7, a presidential order that redefines dissent as terrorism and
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Starmer tried to look tough by calling Reform’s policies racist this week. I have already noted their backlash this morning. But let’s also be clear,
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I did an interview with New York–based finance podcast host Jack Farley yesterday. He had done his research, and the discussion was good. I will
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