The FT has just reported in an email that: The European Central Bank has called an unscheduled meeting of its governing council to discuss the
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I posted this tweet this morning: It is the latest suggestion that I have made that Johnson is a fascist, with reasons noted. I also
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There is a problem that the British and US political systems share in common. It is the deeply delusional far-right politics that has in each
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We now know that the government is relying on the supposed doctrine of necessity to breach the Northern Ireland Protocol. It cannot do so because
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As the Guardian reports this morning: Fears about a possible recession have pounded stock markets around the world amid reports that US Federal Reserve could raise interest
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I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There is a story doing the news rounds this morning that Sunak has cost the government
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Reports in the Guardian this morning suggest that ministers and other Tories are demanding tax cuts as the price of their support for Johnson, and
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As regular readers of this blog will know, I have strong republican sympathies. I most recently made that clear in the aftermath of the Jubilee
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I wrote this yesterday: A vision has to address people’s hopes and their fears. Everyone has both. The balance between them determines the public mood
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