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What am I going to do in 2025?
2025 is a year when I can do what I want – as technically, I will have retired. And what I want to do is
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Is there a looming US debt crisis?
According to the FT: Defaults on US credit card loans have hit the highest level since the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, in a
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For some in the UK, there might be hope
The National (the newspaper for whom I am a columnist in Scotland) noted yesterday that: SUPPORT for Scottish independence is four points stronger than support
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Is politics in 2025 going to be ugly?
2025 is not looking good politically. Trump will be in the White House. Europe is in disarray. Starmer is already a lame duck. What chance
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Trump’s in for a rough ride
The chaos that will surround Trump‘s second presidency of the USA has already become apparent. Given that Trump‘s only personal agenda appears to be saving
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Creating the data to beat the curse of ultra-processed food
As the FT has noted today in a free-to-access article, as many as one in 6 10 and 11-year-olds in the UK might now be
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Politics was extraordinary in 2024
2024 was a year when political certainties disappeared – and not just because of Trump. Politics, as we’ve known it for a long time, went
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Reflections
It was a morning for being out and about as far as we were concerned, but the old and mizzle did not apparently suggest that
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