I have been reflecting on yesterday’s political debacles. One of these was the fiasco of a plan that Rishi Sunak put forward to support those
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The Bank is forecasting a terrible year to come. They seem to be doing their utmost to make it worse.
The Bank of England has very recently issued a press release saying that they have agreed to increase their base interest rate by one-quarter of
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There is an answer to the energy crisis that we are facing. It is called a Green New Deal
This shambolic government will impose misery on millions of people today
There is much speculation at the time that I write this blog about the events of the coming day as they relate to changes in
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Why are we letting states subsidise savings in what look like Ponzi schemes?
As the FT has reported in an email this morning: Shares in [Meta, the owner of Facebook] plummeted more than 20 per cent in after-hours
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The price that we might pay for the continuation of Boris Johnson’s premiership might be very high indeed
To understand precisely where the UK is going under Boris Johnson’s current leadership it is worthwhile considering yesterday’s events in Northern Ireland. As the BBC
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Johnson has been exposed for what he is
Keir Starmer opened his comments at questions to the prime minister in the House of Commons yesterday by saying this: Mr Speaker, I want to
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Small acts of dissent matter right now
Johnson has bunkered down. He is intensely unpopular at home. He is treated as laughing stock on the international stage. There were jokes about being
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The Pope understands the significance of tax transparency: we just now need to get the world’s governments to do so as well
The Pope spoke to Italian tax collectors yesterday and had some important points to make, of which the most significant was, I think, this: I
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