Rishi Sunak was interviewed by Trevor Phillips on Sky News this morning. He was petulant, pedantic, defensive of his record and simultaneously aggressive towards Phillips,
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One of the strangest consequences of running a blog that has quite a high volume of traffic is that I receive a great many press
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The Guardian features an interview by John Harris with Caroline Lucas MP this morning. I’ve known Caroline for almost twenty years now. We are both
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Unilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should “hang their
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As the FT noted in its Lex column yesterday: First chocolate, now coffee — the supply of modern life’s necessities is being squeezed by a
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I watched both boat races yesterday. Why? Because I wanted Cambridge to won. They do, after all, train in my home city of Ely on
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I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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I was at a meeting of the Green New Deal Group in parliament last night. Let me leave aside the increasing absurdity that I feel
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This might well be the best commentary I have read on Sunak’s announcement yesterday. To put this in context, Caroline Slocock was Thatcher’s private secretary.
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