According to the Guardian, Keir Starmer will tell international business leaders today that: We’ve got to look at regulation where it is needlessly holding back
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Rachel Reeves has to get her numbers right, and those on the national debt are very wrong
Most of the data being used when discussing the economy is hopelessly incorrect. We even have up to six figures for the national debt in
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To see the world in a grain of sand
I needed time to think today. Yesterday was harder than I thought it would be. Clearing my late father’s home following the death of my
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How late is too late when it comes to climate change?
The world might already be at a tipping point when it comes to climate change and yet our leaders still seem to be in denial
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Alex Salmond, RIP
I wrote this on Twitter last night: I could add more, but I am not inclined to do so. News of Alex’s death left me
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Are the rich going to leave?
In the run-up to the budget, I have seen claims that as many as one in five people are planning to leave the UK because
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If we want to increase investment we need to tax advertising
I was in discussion with a friend last week who raised his concern about the shortage of savings in the UK, which, he suggested, provided
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Bombing the peacekeepers
As Al Jazeera has reported this morning: Israeli forces fired at UNIFIL headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring two Indonesian peacekeepers. UNIFIL – the United Nations
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Neither Labour or the Democrats are left wing. Is it surprising that those with a conscience are not enamoured with them?
I usually think the work that John Burn-Murdoch does in the FT is really good, but I question his analysis in an article this morning.
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