To continue my pension theme of the morning, I just posted this on Twitter: The question is, I think, appropriate. After all, if the opportunities
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Welcome to the Labour pension con-trick, coming your way at considerable increased cost to your pocket, very soon
I was on LBC this morning talking about pensions in the light of a Rachel Reeves media onslaught on the subject scheduled for this morning.
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Is growth that is dependent on trashing the planet worth having?
Yesterday’s IT outage was serious and debilitating. It clearly had an effect on some readers of this blog because traffic was well down early in
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Starmer’s choice: to facilitate an apartheid state, or not?
I wrote this on Twitter yesterday in response to the International Court of Justice decision on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories: It is not
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Will Labour restore the right to protest?
I posted this on Twitter yesterday: Protestors seeking to draw attention to the desperate plight of our planet have been sent to prison for four
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Will this government do anything different to prevent another pandemic killing hundreds of thousands?
There was much, rightful discussion of the first publication from the Covid inquiry yesterday. There were also, however, too many claims made that the state
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Crypto: the route to serfdom
The Guardian has reported this morning that: The co-founders of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firm have announced their support for Donald Trump’s bid
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Child poverty is caused by a lack of money. Only more money for those in poverty can solve it.
The government has claimed it has ‘hit the ground running’ when it comes to child poverty by setting up a task force that will begin
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Labour’s Budget Responsibility Bill would probably have banned the use of quantitative easing to fund the furlough scheme in 2020
This is how the government describes the Budget Responsibility Bill, which is the first Bill described in its King’s Speech publication: Let’s be candid about
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