Nigel Farage sells Reform as a people’s movement—but scratch the surface and you find a one-man company with no real internal democracy. In this video,
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Starmer and the terror that might yet come
Keir Starmer said in his Labour conference speech that the threat from Reform was, as far as the UK is concerned, as great as the
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Has the coup already happened?
The New York Times began an email I received overnight by saying: Today, I’m talking to my colleague Damien Cave, who wrote a great piece
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10 commandments for a just economy
Our economy isn’t working. It’s built on lies: the myth of growth, the myth that profit comes before people, and the myth that wealth is
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Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest
At the Labour Party conference this morning, Rachel Reeves said: “There is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using one in every £10 of public
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Capitalism, my arse
As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the carmaker battles the
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Labour: racist, immoral and likely to tear the country apart
Yesterday, Keir Starmer described Reform’s policy on the right to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK as “racist”, “immoral” and likely to “tear
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Language, responsibility, and care
Yesterday‘s post on Plato’s Cave was not, as it turns out, the only one to have come out of Saturday morning’s discussion that Jacqueline and
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Would ID cards make life easier?
Keir Starmer has reopened the debate on national identity cards. Supporters say they could make public services, voting, and security simpler. Critics warn of surveillance,
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