This is from an FT email this morning: Why has this happened? Three reasons. The UK thinks financial engineering is more important than actual engineering,
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The economics of benefits: why paying them makes us richer
Politicians keep telling us that benefits are a black hole draining the economy. The truth? They’re one of the best ways to grow it. In
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Are Starmer and Reeves now going to make children with special needs pay to balance their books?
I very strongly support this letter signed by 100 very well-informed people in the Guardian today: The legal rights to an education that meets the
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Not on my bingo card…
Choosing one’s battles
I received an email this morning saying: I’m surprised that you’re frightened to take on the law over the ridiculous terrorism act particularly since you
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Economics without value
This is from the Financial Times: Think about that for a moment. Here is a major consulting firm planning ethnic cleansing on behalf of a
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Labour is making a mockery of the rule of law
I have a fear about what Yvette Cooper did last week. I believe that what she did in promoting the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations)
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Farage’s cronies are being exposed
As The Guardian has noted: A Reform MP, James McMurdock, has given up the party whip while he is investigated over allegations about his business
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The far-right fear education
Far-right politicians from Trump to Orban to UK ministers are following the same authoritarian script: attack universities, control curricula, ban ideas that challenge power. As
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