As the Guardian reports this morning: Thames Water has said it will be unable to recover from its funding crisis if it is blocked from
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According to Rachel Reeves, she and Kier Starmer need to find £22 billion to fund the levels of government spending that Rishi Sunak and Jeremy
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In this morning’s video, I note that two months into office as prime minister, Keir Starmer is claiming that we should anticipate ‘more pain’ under
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Danny Blanchflower and I had a discussion today, with both of us noting that we’ve been in demand from the media. I did the Jeremy
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The neoliberal Single Transferable Party is in a panic in France. As the Guardian (and others) have noted, Marcon is refusing to appoint a representative of
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The paper I write for in Scotland, The National, is none too keen on Starmer’s line on austerity. This is its front page today: They’re
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I re-read the speech Starmer gave yesterday before writing this post. I wanted to be sure I was being fair.  I am left with a
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In this morning’s video, I note that people like to claim they have a gross income out of which their tax is paid. But is
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As I have already mentioned, I was away for a long weekend. I was in Chichester, a city I last visited many decades ago. I
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