The FT has published an article with the headline: Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? At the core of the argument the piece
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I was reading the new post on Substack from Aurelian last night, entitled Mere Anarchy. In it, I noted he said (I use the pro-noun
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I said yesterday that the team here has decided that the focus of our work must now be on the creation of a politics of
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Westminster’s new “common sense” says defence spending must rise and that the price must be paid in cuts to care, public services, and social security.
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The FT has this headline this morning: Then you read the subheading, and it says: So the truth is, Labour has said something absurd, and
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Labour is continuing to prove it is inept. As the Guardian reports this morning: Ministers have rolled back plans for a central element of the
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As the FT has noted: The Scottish government said it planned to introduce a “mansion tax” on homes valued at more than £1mn and to
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Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson
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As the Guardian has reported: Nadhim Zahawi was rejected for a peerage by the Conservatives just weeks before he defected to Reform UK, Tory sources have told
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