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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As a member of the Religious Society of the Friends of the Truth, or the Quakers as they are commonly called, I am inevitably wary
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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 watched last night’s Panorama, which asked the question ‘Is Britain Broke?’ The argument was: We’re old. We’re unhealthy. We need more benefits because we
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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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I was trying to find an old blog post of mine yesterday and could not do so. As a result, I enlisted the help of
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The Guardian has this headline this morning: The story begins by saying: The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged
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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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