The FT reported yesterday that: Israel’s parliament approved two pieces of legislation on Monday that ban a 74-year-old UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating
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Labour keeps talking about working people and says everyone knows what they mean when they use the term. Except, most people don’t, and the term
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I watched most of Keir Starmer’s speech yesterday morning. Several things stood out from it. The first was that the vast majority was word salad.
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I have long criticised Labour’s (or at least Starmer’s and Reeves’) perpetual reference to ‘working people’. I object to ‘hard-working people’ even more. I have
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I thought that a note of explanation is required on how I will be covering the Budget this week, because I will not be covering
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According to the Guardian: Keir Starmer vows to ‘embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’ ahead of budget They are referring to a speech he is
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Trump is a fascist. Of course that scares me. But it scares me even more because I don’t think that Labour will do anything to
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It has been a weekend for reflection, for reasons I will mention in more detail next week. There were two walks in nature. Saturday was
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Just a quick thought this morning. Suppose you ran a newspaper. Suppose your country faced the very real prospect of a fascist president. Suppose there
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