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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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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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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I am not sure that this needs additional comment:

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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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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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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I have already noted this morning the imminent shutdown of the US Federal government as a result of Trump and Musk demanding that the US
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One of my colleagues told me that she was hanging up her keyboard for Christmas yesterday. There was nothing unusual, it seems, about Christmas break
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