The Telegraph reported this morning that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has told Rachel Reeves that raising income tax would be
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According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of
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In 2011, I wrote The Courageous State, which was a call for governments that act with purpose and confidence, not cowardice. Fourteen years later, we still
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What happens in a country that has insufficient inward migration and a massively declining birth rate (as many, including the UK, are now at risk
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According to The Guardian: Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25%. This has followed
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Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild
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I note this, from the Guardian: Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of a peace plan to pause fighting and release some
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I struggled with whether to comment on the Conservative Party conference this morning. I did so partly because of this YouGov poll, which shows he
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