Prince Charles and Prince William are presenting the Queen’s Speech today in their role as Royal Commissioners. There are two either Commissioners. One of them
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Free speech does not come for free
I worked with the television documentary journalists John Sweeny on several programmes a decade or more ago, covering Russian money, Sark and the Barclay brothers
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Inflation is unnecessary – and is being fuelled by a government that’s refusing to stop it. Why is that?
I have just posted this thread on Twitter, dealing with how the government could keep prices down, but ignoring other ways they could help people
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Why is no one talking about Covid as a direct cause of inflationary pressure, and about how to address it?
There have been many suggestions made as to the cause of the current inflation in our economy, a number of them by me. Two things
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Student debt policy shows that the government really does not care about piling debt high on the shoulders of generations to come
I watched government minister Victoria Atkins MP talking in a Channel 4 election debate last night, during which she claimed we must not borrow now
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Johnson has no idea about how to help those in poverty when there is so much he could do
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Susanna Reid interviewed Boris Johnson on ITV yesterday morning. He had no answers to her questions
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Roe v Wade: it is not men’s right to decide
For all practical purposes, I am a child of the 1970s. Against my parent’s wishes, and certainly in a fashion way beyond my mother’s comprehension,
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The UK has a constitutional duty to impose direct rule on the BVI to bring its role as a secrecy jurisdiction to an end
The FT has noted that: The acting premier of the British Virgin Islands, Natalio Wheatley, has rejected as “unacceptable” the reimposition of direct rule from
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The Bank of England does not have a duty to push people into poverty
I cannot have been alone and being appalled at comments made by former Bank of England employee and Monetary Policy Committee member Adam Posen, who
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