When this blog was renamed and re-launched almost exactly 2 years ago, the inclusion of polls within posts proved to be a popular feature. For
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I know the 2003 film Love Actually has not lasted well, for all sorts of reasons. There are definite issues that can be raised about
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The Bank of England could make our lives a lot better by changing some of its policies, but it shows no sign of doing so.
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It is always the case that money can be found for defence spending, war and any other act of destruction for humankind. As the FT
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US Vice President J D Vace showed that diplomacy was an art beyond his reach yesterday when making a speech in Munich. He was speaking
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Rachel Reeves suffers with the nickname ‘Rachel from Accounts’. Only it looks like her own accounting has not been that good, and nor is her
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The opening paragraphs of my column in The National yesterday said: EVERY time an idiot appears on the world stage, my experience tells me that
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The FT has reported today that: The UK government should consider the use of private capital to fix the NHS’s crumbling buildings and infrastructure, the
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Trump says we need to spend five per cent of our GDP on defence. That would increase the spend from £60 billion to £140 billion.
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