The Bank of England will be raising interest rates today. They are likely to increase their base rate from 3.5% to 4%. There is no
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We face the biggest group of strikes in recent history today. That is not surprising. A belligerent
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The BBC commissioned a report from Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot that was submitted to the BBC in November and has now been published. It
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From the FT this morning: The message is simple: if we are to save the planet we have to tax the rich because they massively
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The IMF has issued new growth forecasts for the world. They are better than expected for almost every country, except one, which is the UK:
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: It’s hard to believe that three years ago few people had heard of Covid, and fewer still
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There is a strange dimension to the Zahawi story that needs to be noted. Despite the vast amount of comment made in the media on
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I wrote this tweet yesterday: We can apparently legislate to make the intention to protest peacefully a crime but we can’t apparently legislate to make
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Yesterday’s sacking of Nadhim Zahawi by Rishi Sunak following an investigation by the prime minister‘s ethics adviser tells us more than any of those three
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