To understand precisely where the UK is going under Boris Johnson’s current leadership it is worthwhile considering yesterday’s events in Northern Ireland. As the BBC
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The government continues to ignore the risk from Covid and is refusing to deliver the clean air that will mitigate the risk. That makes them culpable for the resulting unnecessary deaths, in my opinion.
Ss the FT notes this morning: Good for them. It really is about time someone in the UK paid attention to this variant. Latest reports
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When the truth cannot be told without fear of repercussion the possibility of holding power to account has ceased to exist
The consensus amongst journalists is that Boris Johnson will survive yesterday’s debacle following the publication of the interim Sue Gray report. There was not a
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If only
We need a Great Reform
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We witnessed an attempted coup this week. A prime minister who has very obviously broken the
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If we want to protect people in this country from Covid then we have to also protect the world. It really is that simple.
This letter was sent to the Prime Minister by more than 200 academics, scientists and specialists yesterday. I think it worth reproducing in full (exporting
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The national insurance increase planned for April cannot be justified
Prof Danny Blanchflower and I had a brief Twitter exchange last night on the subject of cancelling the planned national insurance increase, due in April,
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The Tory’s approach to fraud is undermining the UK
My article in The National yesterday was tweeted by them using this, slightly worrying, image: As I concluded: Once fraud is accepted as normal in
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The Tory proposal to sanction the unemployed reveals their contempt for those who must work for a living, who they treat as cogs in a machine
As The Guardian notes this morning: Unemployed workers will be forced to take up a job in any sector or face swift financial sanctions under
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