A day off gives time to think. Yesterday was not exactly a day off. Quite a lot was done, but some thinking took place as
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Dangerous thinking
Thinking is not just a private act – it shapes the world we live in. Right now, powerful voices are framing our politics with paranoia:
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How to end phoenixing
As the FT notes this morning: HM Revenue & Customs has lost hundreds of millions of pounds more than previously estimated to an insolvency practice
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Starmer has to be next
As I noted earlier this morning, Mandelson was bound to be sacked as US Ambassador very shortly. He went sooner than I expected, having just
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Killing people is not a part of politics
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point, has been assassinated in Utah, ISA. I don’t like what Turning Point has to say. I don’t like
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The budget will be Newtonian, at cost to us all
The FT has reported this morning: The fiscal fate of Sir Keir Starmer’s government rests on a decision by a group of largely anonymous civil
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Gary Stevenson and the failure of the left
As readers here will know, the weekend before last, Gary Stevenson admitted that he did not know how to create a wealth tax and would
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The curse of PFI
Wes Streeting wants to fund 200 new NHS health centres through PFI. But the Public Finance Initiative was a disaster in the past – locking
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Cambridge may be leading where others will follow, and the journey is to despair
There was an article published by the BBC yesterday that, in the regional news output, looked at the relative state of well-being — or life
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