Heather Cox Richardson used a term in her ‘Letter from an American’ on 27 June to describe the rhetorical technique Trump used against Biden in
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This has been a dismal election campaign for tax
Is it too soon for an election campaign retrospective? I don’t think so. In that case this is my first. This campaign has been dominated
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Why does society hate thinkers?
This morning’s short video has now been published. In it, I argue that thinkers exist to upset people. That’s what “thinking outside the box” will
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Farage, rumbled and reviled
I watched the Question Time election special last night. Having previously given half hour slots to the leaders of Labour, the Tories, SNP and LibDems,
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The foxes really do look like they have taken over the chicken run
The Economist magazine has declared itself for Labour in this election. In an email sent this morning by its editor, it declared the reason for
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The world’s wealth is eagerly anticipating the return of Trump
Investment advisers De Vere Group emailed me this morning to highlight the thoughts of their CEO, Nigel Green, on the Trump v. Biden debate. They
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The Bank of England is going to make us pay a price for democracy
As the Guardian notes this morning: Uncertainty caused by a global wave of elections, starting this weekend in France, risks destabilising the UK’s financial system, the Bank
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A worldwide wealth tax? Why do it, when local progress would be so much easier?
I note that the Guardian, amongst others, reports this morning that: An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires is technically
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Assange’s release
I admit that I have never been Julian Assange’s greatest fan. I met him once, and decided that I could not deal with him. Something
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