A sound of my childhood, remembered with gratitude. RIP, Brian Wilson. What do I most remember about Beach Boys songs? The total incomprehension at where
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The Spending Review dominated my day yesterday, and I went out for a long walk last night to forget all about it. Most of the
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I was inspired by SubStack writer ‘Aurelian’ to add a definition of democracy to the glossary yesterday. This is as follows: There is no consensus
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As the Office for National Statistics have reported this morning: Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in April
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The assumption that all economic growth is good is clearly misplaced. But how do we convince politicians and economists who are obsessed with growth that
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Reeves is delivering austerity for the UK, unless you’re wealthy, when it’s still bonanza time. This is the transcript: It has to be said that
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These are my contemporaneous  notes made as Reeves spoke on her Spending Review this lunchtime. I stress – they were just notes – nothing more,
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I have just added this post to my glossary, because I think defining the term ‘the age of aggression’ is important, and I have a
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As Reuters have noted: U.S. President Donald Trump warned people on Tuesday against protesting at the weekend military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army’s
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