There was good birding to be done at the Wetland and Wildlife Trust Welney reserve this morning, along with their excellent coffee – the best
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Keeping things in proportion
The closure of Heathrow Airport for about 24 hours this week has been treated as a national disaster. To view the media, you would think
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Should the state be managing infrastructure again?
As the FT asks this morning: It is entirely appropriate that the FT raises this question. For decades, neoliberalism has dictated that all economic activity
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Might Labour be losing Scotland?
As is readily apparent, everywhere, Labour is in turmoil and chronic electoral decline. Its general election win last July might, I suspect, prove to be
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Why is Trump stoking animosity?
If politics is always about resolving the conflicts within and between groups in society so that they can co-exist, even if one is favoured over
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Little boxes
Suggested by Milke Parr, and so appropriate as a description of the goal of social neoliberalism: Little boxes on the hillsideLittle boxes made of ticky-tackyLittle
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Of course people are in anguish. Our politicians do not care about them
Channel 4 has an article out today on its feature on current political opinion in Grimsby – which it has chosen without very good representative
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Government by evil
As the New York Times has noted: Trump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime law the president has invoked to deport suspected members
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Does the UK government have a debt problem right now? No, except for the self-imposed one created by the Bank of England
Public sector finance figures are out today from the Office for National Statistics. They are relevant simply because Rachel Reeves is planning to impose massive
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