People are beginning to realise, with a sense of dull awareness, that we are heading into the most enormous political void in this country. There
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Wes Streeting’s dreams are going to be shattered
I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that it seems as if Wes Streeting’s dream for the NHS is that it
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It won’t come better than this
John Oliver’s US based talk show is not easily accessible, at least by me, in the UK. He did, however, do an analysis of the
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For once the IFS are on the same side – by keeping a significant distance from Labour’s dire economic plans
I have been pleased to hear Paul Johnson and Carl Emerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies criticise both the Labour and Conservative parties’ economic
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The politics of blandness
A weekend spent trying to avoid some of the discussion going on around the election was worthwhile. At the end of it I had done
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Migration: you ain’t seen nothing yet
This morning’s short video has now been published. In it I argue that whatever our politicians say, migration is going to increase – because climate
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If you look in the wrong place, as Labour plans to do, you will never find the tax gap
HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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Why the Tories think it’s OK to gamble on elections, and the much more sinister dimensions to this belief
Why do the Tories think they can bet with insider information, as they obviously did before the election was called? It’s because they think that
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All of life is politics
In this morning’s short video, I suggest that any politician who says ‘let’s take the politics out of this’ actually means ‘let’s bring the market
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