I have done presentations in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the last two evenings on the Green New Deal. As is my usual practice, I prepared
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The SNP leadership needs to break the Union for the sake of all within it
Sitting in Edinburgh this morning it’s a little hard not to have a Scottish perspective on some of the events of the last day, especially
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Please sign this petition
I know it is said signing a petition changes nothing. I do not agree. When we are facing a government that will not accept the
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Monarchial power and violent crises
This article by Martyn Bennett, who is Professor of Early Modern History, Nottingham Trent University, is on The Conversation this morning and was, I thought well worth
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Time for Her Majesty to step up to the mark or for the Crown to depart the scene
It is now clear that Boris Johnson will seek to prorogue parliament to deny it the chance to debate alternatives to leaving the EU without
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The neoconservative revolution has to begun, and has to fail
Now we know what ‘Taking back control’ really means. Boris Johnson has announced this morning that he plans that parliament should be prorogued from early
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Getting the fundamental pension contract right
Yesterday’s ‘Tax reform of the day’ referred to national insurance contributions, and for reasons that are not entirely clear it was massively trolled on the
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Can we do No Deal without parliament’s approval?
It is not often that I borrow a post wholesale from somebody else, and I cannot recall the last time I did so without asking,
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Edinburgh today; Glasgow tomorrow
For those not aware, I am speaking at a YesHub event in Edinburgh tonight, talking about the Green New Deal and no doubt other things
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