Westminster’s new “common sense” says defence spending must rise and that the price must be paid in cuts to care, public services, and social security.
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We put out this video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: Latest opinion polls are showing that in both Scotland and Wales, there’s a very
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This opinion poll, from ITV in Wales, published yesterday, is very encouraging with regard to the Senedd election coming up in May 2026: Comparisons are
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The FT has this headline this morning: Then you read the subheading, and it says: So the truth is, Labour has said something absurd, and
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Labour is continuing to prove it is inept. As the Guardian reports this morning: Ministers have rolled back plans for a central element of the
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The Funding the Future team had what you might call an “awayday” yesterday, except that it did not last all day, and we only went
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As the FT has noted: The Scottish government said it planned to introduce a “mansion tax” on homes valued at more than £1mn and to
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Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson
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We issued this YouTube short at lunchtime today: This is the transcript: Donald Trump is opposing Jerome Powell, who is the chair of the US
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