Shares in Nvidia, the leading AI chip maker, fell almost 10 per cent yesterday, erasing around $280 billion of its supposed value—the biggest single-day loss
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Neoliberalism has reduced politics to the level of farce
I watched Shona Robison, the Scottish minister of finance, deliver a statement in the Holyrood parliament yesterday. The statement was necessitated by budget changes that
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Why are the far-right so popular?
In this morning’s video I note that the far-right won an election in Germany last weekend, following on from successes elsewhere. Why is it so
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Today’s tragedy in the Channel
I just posted this on Twitter: We could solve this problem. It is the egos of politicians that is preventing this happening. Why can’t we
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Tackling the cumber
The Guardian reports this morning that: Spending extra cash on mental health services would boost economic growth and improve the nation’s well-being more than building new
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Is Keir Starmer an authoritarian?
In this morning’s video I note that the EU has offered the UK the chance of free movement for people under the age of 30,
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20,000
Some time during last night this blog’s related YouTube channel hit 20,000 followers: This is an increase of 12,000 followers since April when the channel
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Labour’s fence-sitting does not represent an ethical foreign policy
I continue to struggle with the actions of the Labour government. Yesterday we learned that it has banned some sales of arms Israel, but not
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There is no economic crisis in the UK. So why is Rachel Reeves making people suffer?
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Would the UK economy really have collapsed as Labour is saying if it had not cut the
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