Compass, the left-of-centre think tank, published polling yesterday on the opinion of Labour Party members that states a blunt truth, which is that the Labour government
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I was reflecting last night on the news and its obsession with Trump, with Putin, with war, with genocide, with Israel, with small boats, and
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Rachel Reeves may be about to close a major inheritance tax loophole — and the wealthy are calling it “dangerous.” But what’s really dangerous in
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It is rare for this blog to promote anything related to the Adam Smith Institute, but there have to be exceptions to every rule. This
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I read a pile of complete nonsense about inheritance tax yesterday. It was included in an email sent to me by somebody called Nigel Green,
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As the FT reported last night: US wholesale prices jumped in July, rising 3.3 per cent from a year earlier, in the latest signal that
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Today’s news agenda is going to be dominated by events in Alaska. My problem with this is that the meeting between Trump and Putin that
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Politicians tell us taxes pay for public services. In reality, it does something far more important — it shapes our society. In this video, I
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As the Office for National Statistics reports this morning: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased by 0.3% in Quarter 2 (Apr
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