Starlings in my back garden, not long ago:

I am trying, very hard, to keep calm this morning having read the following article on the front of the Sunday Telegraph: It is very
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On the recommendation of blog-reader Nigel Mace I acquired a copy of this book recently: The book was published in 1935 to justify the actions
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This letter was in the Guardian yesterday. It was from Prof Mary Mellor, emeritus professor of economics at Northumbria University, who has written a great
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I have just published this video, which is based on the Twitter thread published today: The transcript is as follows: New data published by the
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I published this thread on Twitter this morning: The government has just published new data on the cost of UK tax reliefs, which is the
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From one of my favourite contemporary poets, Steve Pottinger, with his permission: (don’t) read all about it! In all the stories from the funeral there’s
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This was my talk to Oxford for Europe and Cambridge for Europe earlier this week – if you have some time on your hands. The
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The International Monetary Fund’s Public Financial Management Blog recorded this yesterday: During 2022, we published 78 articles, of which 56 percent were authored by non-IMF
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