I posted this thread on Twitter in reaction to the lecture by Emily Maitlis, already noted here this morning: What Emily Maitlis seemed to me
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Emily Maitlis, spelling out the dangers of populism and a world that has as yet not recognised them
It is very rare indeed that I realise that the morning news agenda requires that I watch a video of an event broadcast the night
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We have a choice. We can support lawyers who support justice: the woke ones, that is. Or we can support lawyers who promote injustice. Our government supports the wrong ones.
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I am fed up with Tory attacks on lawyers who defend people against injustice, discrimination, abuse and
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The hope of what was once called a decent living has departed for the average household
I wrote an article for The Independent yesterday. The title they asked me to wrote about was ‘It’s now impossible for the average worker to
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Indifference to the suffering of others is the attitude of the modern Tory
I always remember a conversation I had a few years ago on a train between Cambridge and London. I was writing about tax and the
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The future of democracy is uncertain
I worry about politics. In the US yesterday, a pro-Trump candidate defeated the pretty far-right US Senator Liz Cheney in the Republican primary for Wyoming,
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The time was always going to come when it would become apparent that capitalism just does not care: that time is now.
Earlier this year I wrote a Twitter thread explaining why the profits of energy companies would rise dramatically this year as a result of the
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These things I believe
This weekend a person who has all the appearance of being a right-wing troll, but may be the concerned member of the Labour Party that
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US banks are learning a lesson in failing to keep appropriate records: it’s a shame our dodgy government is not being required to do so as well
As the FT notes in an email this morning: As Brooke Masters writes in this week’s column, governments and companies have long known they must capture important communications for
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