I wrote this tweet yesterday: We can apparently legislate to make the intention to protest peacefully a crime but we can’t apparently legislate to make
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What we need now is a change to England’s libel laws
Yesterday’s sacking of Nadhim Zahawi by Rishi Sunak following an investigation by the prime minister‘s ethics adviser tells us more than any of those three
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Thoughts on Zahawi
I have not had time for family, other commitments, Twitter and blogging today, so these comments made by me on Twitter will have to do
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Are the Tories ever fit for office?
This image was of the Guardian website this morning: The message is clear, as is the juxtaposition: this is a government incapacitated by allegations of
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Getting our economics right really matters
I posted this thread to Twitter this morning: The NHS is under funded. As I demonstrated in a report published at the weekend, it’s not
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The real scandal about the national debt is the deliberate overstatement of it by the government
I started writing a long thread on NHS funding this morning before getting distracted into this one, on the absurdity of the accounting for interest
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The Tories are choosing to impose misery on the country when none is needed
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, is saying today that if nurses get inflation matching pay rises patients
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Westminster is very unwise to challenge Scotland’s capacity to decide
For the first time since devolution happened the Westminster government has decided to over-rule legislation passed by the Scottish parliament. The legislation itself is on
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The march of fascist control continues
As the Guardian reports this morning: Police are to be given powers to shut down protests before any disruption begins under Rishi Sunak’s plans for
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