Consider a possibility for a moment. I’m not suggesting that Trump‘s Big Beautiful Bill Act is not going to reach the US statute book, but
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According to Roy Lilley’s persistently good newsletter on mainly medical issues (and I have edited, very slightly): Yesterday’s defence review describes military medical services as:
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As the New York Times noted in a mail this morning: A new study estimates that there have been nearly 1.4 million military casualties in Russia’s three-year
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The obsession with Russia in the defence review is wrong. The real risk is from fascists wherever they come from, and Russia is a long
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Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him. This is the audio version: This is
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As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax
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I was amused to note this in the FT this morning, given my observation on the accuracy of ChatGPT yesterday: Big Four accountancy firms are
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If big tech can issue their own currencies for use around the world, what chance is there that macroeconomic control of the national economies of
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As The Guardian notes this morning: The core of the story is that today’s Defence Review will unveil a plan for increased defence spending by
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