It seems to me that the time has arrived to ask the question that I am not seeing asked almost anywhere, which is, who will
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The inequality lie
Right-wing commentators claim inequality in Britain is falling. It isn’t. The Office for National Statistics says the Gini coefficient has improved — but the truth
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If Rachel Reeves must raise taxes, the basic rate of income tax is the worst place to start
The Telegraph reported this morning that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has told Rachel Reeves that raising income tax would be
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Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness
According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of
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Talking the language of courage
In 2011, I wrote The Courageous State, which was a call for governments that act with purpose and confidence, not cowardice. Fourteen years later, we still
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Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble
What happens in a country that has insufficient inward migration and a massively declining birth rate (as many, including the UK, are now at risk
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If Labour will pay more for drugs but not increase funds for the NHS, who do they expect to take the pain?
According to The Guardian: Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25%. This has followed
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Right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march
Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?
What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild
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