Many people will have seen reports of an opinion poll published by YouGov yesterday, based on interviews with 13,000 people spread over every constituency in
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Andy Burnham vs the bond markets: who really runs Britain?
Andy Burnham says it’s time for the UK to stop being in hock to the bond markets. The City is in uproar, but who really
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Zack Polanski: the reaction
I sat down with Zack Polanski yesterday, the new leader of the Green Party, for a fascinating discussion on economics and politics. This was my
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Economic questions: The Hayek question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might
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We don’t need to tax gambling to end child poverty
We learned last night that more than one hundred Labour MPs seem to think that the only way we can pay for child poverty is
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Farage is for the rich
This is the third in a series of posts on the politics of Nigel Farage and Reform, all of which treat the two as effectively
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Farage and the NHS
This is the second in a series of posts on the politics of Nigel Farage and Reform, all of which treat the two as effectively
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The consumer vs fascism
As has been widely reported, Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air in the USA last night. Disney, which owns the channel that produces his show,
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Is AI going to kill society as we know it?
As the FT and many others in the media are noting today, the chaos resulting from a cyberattack on JLR – the Jaguar Land Rover
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