I posted this video to YouTube this morning. In it I argue that Labour is saying it cannot afford to end child poverty. That, however,
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Sunak can find the cash when it comes to pensioners. The question is, who will he make pay the price?
The FT features a story in all the papers this morning, highlighting Sunak’s bung to pensioners, who are the only group left in society likely
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Venn diagrame for our times: Wes Streeting and the NHS
The Starmer project is deeply contemptuous of anyone vaguely left of centre
Sonia Sodha, The Observer’s main leader writer, wrote a particularly irritating article in that newspaper yesterday. In it, she criticised those on the left who,
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Election question 3- Why won’t you charge the equivalent of National Insurance on investment income?
This is the third in my series of video questions published to coincide with the general election: The transcript is: Why won’t you charge the
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Putting the N back into the NHS
I posted this video on YouTube this morning. In it I argue that the NHS is a mess, created by meddling politicians who have broken it
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The force dividing society that Sunak so obviously fears is the Conservative Party
Rishi Sunak must be really desperate. He must also know that he has already completely lost the youth vote in the forthcoming general election. How
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We need an end to Bank of England independence and the power of the Treasury
Nick Macpherson, who was for some time the permanent secretary (or civil service boss) at the UK Treasury, has an article in the FT today,
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Where does the buck stop at the Post Office?
I keep watching the performance of Paula Vennells at the Post Office inquiry with almost complete bemusement. I have been a director of a number
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