As the Guardian notes in its morning headline story: As fears grow over the threat posed by the highly mutated Omicron variant, detected in more
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To be free
A commentator on this blog named Ros Wain sent me this poem written by her son. I share it because I think it is worth
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A world that doesn’t care
I was musing this morning having woken at my usual blogging hour even though there was no light at that time to stir me out
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The arrival of the single party state draws ever closer
This tweet, from a member of SAGE, which advises the government on Covid, seems entirely appropriate: Tories are apt to talk about the left ‘no
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Boris Johnson is officially a liar
For the first time in decades yesterday the Speaker of the House of Commons permitted one member to describe another as a liar without the
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‘Leave the rich alone’ is now official government policy
Over the last couple of years the pretty lame Office for Tax Simplification has made a range of recommendations for the reform of capital gains
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How wrong do KPMG have to be before they are sanctioned?
As the FT reports in an email this morning: An obvious question follows on from that. If misconduct is a polite euphemism for wrongdoing –
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Looking for a C change
In a blog post this morning I called for politics based on care, community, cooperation, coordination, and conviviality. In response, a commentator has suggested to
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Covid demands that we have a new politics embracing care, community, cooperation, coordination, and conviviality
Just suppose for a moment that we had politicians with the sense to realise that COVID is not over, and that omicron is just one
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