What was important about the Spring Statement from Rachel Reeves was what it did not say –  like mortgage rates are going to rise by
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I admit that Sabrina Carpenter is a person about whose music I know very little. For all I know, I might have never heard a
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This is a brief follow-up to yesterday‘s blog post in which I sought to explain why, I think, Trump, Musk and the other big tech oligarchs
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The closure of Heathrow Airport for about 24 hours this week has been treated as a national disaster. To view the media, you would think
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If politics is always about resolving the conflicts within and between groups in society so that they can co-exist, even if one is favoured over
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Channel 4 has an article out today on its feature on current political opinion in Grimsby – which it has chosen without very good representative
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The Bank of England has left base rates at 4.5% today. Whilst I maintain my view the interest rates in the UK are far too
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This comes from Newsnight on Tuesday night. Victoria Derbyshire, who is one of the best interviewers the BBC now has, was interviewing Torsten Bell, the
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According to the FT: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not raise taxes in next week’s Spring Statement, Labour officials said, as they tried to dismiss Conservative
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