The media is getting very excited by the value of a Bitcoin having supposedly reached $100,000 overnight. It didn’t. What happened was that became the
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Labour is rotten
Labour’s crass inability to govern in the public interest is becoming ever more apparent. The FT has provided another example this morning when reporting that: City
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The SNP sent a message to Keir Starmer yesterday. They care. He needs to do so.
The SNP delivered a message to Keir Starmer on how to govern yesterday. In the Scottish budget announcement, SNP finance minister Shona Robinson announced an
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If ministers don’t believe in government, it can’t work
For decades we have suffered ministers who get elected to advance their own careers but not to deliver good government, in which they have no
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Nationalisation is back
This is from the Guardian’s morning email, which is one of many I subscribe to: Why note it? Simply because nationalisation is back on the
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Birding, and more
I spent some of the weekend in Snape, near the Suffolk coast. That was partly to have a break. It was also about some bird
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What does ChatGPT know?
The Guardian had a story yesterday about the fact that ChatGPT had a block on questions about someone called David Mayer over the weekend. ChatGPT
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In the face of threats, are people willing to do anything to defend democracy?
It is hard to know what to make of the failed coup in South Korea that happened overnight. At one level, this can be seen
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Economic growth? Forget it.
Politicians in developed countries are still obsessed with growth without realising that growth is history because as our incomes have grown, we consume fewer material
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