If anyone is wondering why there are no blogs so far today the answer is straightforward. I heard yet another government minister telling a journalist
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Something very strange happened yesterday. It began when I wrote a Twitter thread when I had no plan to do so. I had promised myself
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I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We witnessed an attempted coup this week. A prime minister who has very obviously broken the
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My mood changed yesterday. My Twitter comment reflect the fact. Begin with this:: That gave way to this sentiment: That then lead to this feeling:
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The Office for Budget Responsibility published this commentary this week: This needs to be out in the context of its borrowing forecasts made last October:
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This letter was sent to the Prime Minister by more than 200 academics, scientists and specialists yesterday. I think it worth reproducing in full (exporting
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Prof Danny Blanchflower and I had a brief Twitter exchange last night on the subject of cancelling the planned national insurance increase, due in April,
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My article in The National yesterday was tweeted by them using this, slightly worrying, image: As I concluded: Once fraud is accepted as normal in
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Sometimes a poet, and their friends, has to say something in a way others can’t. This is from a poet whose work I have long
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