As Politico notes this morning: Health Secretary Wes Streeting is kicking off the government’s first round of morning TV and radio interviews for almost a
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This is worth watching if you have a television licence: The programme shows how things like strawberry ice cream and orange-flavoured fizzy drinks can be
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The UK has the highest domestic energy prices in Europe, and it’s all down to poor regulation, political dogma, and the fact that we haven’t
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The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is now, as it was in Blair’s days, Labour’s favoured think tank. Half of its leadership from a
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The world of politics remains in apparent lockdown. The UK news media has almost nothing to say for itself, based on the morning’s newsletters from
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The claims economics makes about itself as a subject for study can in no way be matched with the value-laden, neoliberal way in which much
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One of my most popular videos in 2024 was on why young people are alienated from work in the UK. I was invited to discuss
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I have been asked to define the way in which I use the term ‘far-right’. I do that in this video and, at the same
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We had to go shopping in Cambridge yesterday. It is not my favourite pastime, but sometimes it has to be done. We had a coffee
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