I was talking to an old friend, Tony Groves, of the Echo Chamber podcast, based in Dublin, on Friday, largely because I was recording a
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I have already posted once this morning on hate-fuelled politics. I have to do so again. The Telegraph has reported Reform’s hate-fuelled Budget proposals, about
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Can you imagine Donald Trump staying in office for another three years, given the very obvious crises facing his presidency? I can’t. Epstein is going
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Ignorance about money is set to become an even more important feature of UK politics, it would seem. As the FT has reported: A former
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The Guardian has suddenly decided that Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments about Black and Asian people on television lets them describe what she said as
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Democracy really is under threat in the USA. Almost unmentioned by the media in the UK, it is grinding to a halt. This comes from
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The Caerphilly Senedd by-election result yesterday was reported in advance as being on a knife-edge between Plaid Cymru and Reform, with Labour, the incumbents in
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Why are Britain’s politicians so hopeless? From Tory fantasists to Labour deniers, Westminster has driven out the talented, the imaginative and the honest. The Conservative
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As the FT noted in an article published late yesterday afternoon: Nigel Farage has pitched himself as the British crypto sector’s saviour, saying “I am
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