As was widely reported in the media last night, the UK has joined Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway in imposing sanctions against extremist Israeli
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Rachel Reeves’ record as Chancellor has not been good. Today provides her with another opportunity to get everything wrong. This is the audio version: This
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Yesterday Trump ordered 700 marines to California to deal with what he calls an insurrection (a subject he knows something about, which knowledge should have
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As The Guardian reports this morning: Unemployment in the UK rose in April to the highest level in almost four years, official figures showed, as
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I was out, thinking, yesterday. I never have a problem coming up with ideas. My problem is having a surfeit of them (all the time;
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There was a great deal of discussion here yesterday about the government’s decision to reinstate the winter fuel allowance, with decidedly complicated tax arrangements attached
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We passed 100,000 YouTube subscribers in early January this year. Yesterday, the plaque to mark this arrived. It had taken that long, we were told,
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The wealthy say they are terrified of the national debt, but they aren’t really. It only exists because they don’t pay enough tax, and they’d
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Rachel Reeves posted this on Twitter this lunchtime: This means 70% of all pensioners are going to have the winter fuel allowance restored after not
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