As The Guardian notes this morning: Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, is the only minister yet to agree a spending settlement with the chancellor, Rachel
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As the Financial Times notes in an email this morning: In Los Angeles, clashes continue between anti-deportation protesters and law enforcement after Donald Trump deployed
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As The Guardian notes this morning: Disability benefit cuts planned by the UK government will disproportionately impact the lives of people in Wales, campaigners have
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Many people on the UK’s left want a wealth tax. The trouble is that one of those would take years to deliver. Taxing income and
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I said that yesterday might be about birdwatching. Some was done. This baby robin, not long out of its nest, was very keen to be
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I gathered from reactions to my comments on what Fiona Hill had to say about the UK defence review, which I posted here yesterday, that
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As the Guardian reports this morning: Russia is at war with Britain, the US is no longer a reliable ally and the UK has to
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It’s Saturday, some good bird watching awaits if and when the rain stops, and because I was busy all day yesterday, I did not talk
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Education that pretends the world isn’t going to change serves no one. It’s time we taught people how to change with the times. This is
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