In October 2008, as that year’s financial crisis began to unfold, the Observer’s political editor, Andrew Rawnsley, looked back at what Gordon Brown had said
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I am bored by politicians who pretend that they are from the left and right, and who either worship markets or pretend that the state
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It was a pochard sort of day at Welney Bird Reserve this morning: The above is a male, one of the many hundreds there today.
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I suspect that there are those who have been wondering why I have made so many comments about the costs of ultra-processed food recently. I
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I had a comment made by Baroness Ros Altmann, who was a Tory pensions minister in the closing years of Cameron’s premiership, made on the
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Most people have no clue how their pension and other savings are managed, or who by, and what the consequences for the economy, the planet
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The Office for National Statistics has issued a bulletin on GDP growth this morning, noting: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have increased
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This is from last night’s Mansion House Speech by Rachel Reeves: I will always do what is in our national interest… … for our economy…
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As Rachel Reeves made clear in her Mansion House speech last night, she wants to relax banking regulations. Big bonuses will be coming back, paid
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