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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It is time that economists started noticing that there is a world beyond their numbers
The Guardian reported yesterday: England has suffered its second worst harvest on record – with fears growing for next year – after heavy rain last
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As managers, Labour are utterly incompetent.
The Guardian has reported: Rachel Reeves is considering raising capital gains tax as high as 39% in the budget, the Guardian can reveal, amid a
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Is growth all its cracked up to be?
It is monthly GDP data day from the Office for National Statistics. The percentage figures for the month (this data is always reported as percentage
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Why is it that the elderly are living as long as ever but are sicker?
New research shows that those in their late 60s now are sicker than those in their late 80s were at the same point in their
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The economic choice facing us is who matters? The people of this country, or the wealthy and the City?
I was agonising last night, and even into the night, on how to deal with the issues raised by the Institute for Fiscal Studies yesterday
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I was wrong: the Tories are crazier than I imagined
I was wrong to suggest, only yesterday morning, that James Cleverly would be in the final two of the Tory leadership campaign. It turned out
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Venezuela, the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe prove MMT is true
It’s said that states that have suffered hyperinflation prove that modern monetary theory (MMT) is not true. However, the exact opposite is the case. They
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