As I write this I should be listening to Kemi Badenoch on the BBC’s Today Programme, but she appears to have nothing to say of
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The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born
The Office for National Statistics has reported this morning that: UK real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have shown no growth in Quarter
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Is Trump trying to silence the press?
A free press is an essential part of a functioning democracy. If legal threats close that down, what is left? This is the audio file:
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Labour: too indifferent to democracy to care about its future
As The Observer reports this morning: Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid
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How did Labour find £6 billion?
Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it
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It’ll be freezing this Christmas
Why are the Tories talking about flat taxes again?
Flat taxes are great if you want to increase inequality, crush government services, or leave large numbers of people destitute. Is that why the Tories
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Where it all began
I mentioned my first typewriter this morning. That no longer exists – being little more than a toy beaten into non-existence by over-use not long
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Get rid of the Royals and Scotland could be free
I was fascinated by this report in The National – the newspaper for which I write in Scotland – this morning: INDEPENDENCE support would rise
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