Amongst the evidence from Lee Cain, Boris Johnson’s press secretary, to the Covid inquiry was this: The particular line I am referring to is the
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As The Guardian reports this morning: England’s housing crisis will push many local authorities into bankruptcy as the increasing cost of emergency accommodation for thousands
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I have just posted this further comment on the need for a ceasefire in the Palestinian / Israeli conflict on Twitter: Let me offer a
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My column in The National this week was about human being’s capacity to be inhumane to other human beings. I used the example of poverty
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I think it is time for a new series of ‘Questions of the Day’. Let me start with a slightly frivolous one. It has been
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Having written once about artificial intelligence this morning, it only seems right and proper to do so for a second time. As the FT reports
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As the Guardian has reported: The UK’s financial regulators have formally scrapped the banker bonus cap, removing one of the key reforms introduced by the
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Downing Street is, apparently, going to hold a summit on shoplifting very soon. There is, apparently, no planned summit on 1 million children living in
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The EU Tax Observatory has a new report on tax evasion out this morning. Or, to be precise, they have a new report on tax
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