Millions of households in England are about to see their water bills rise again. According to a report in The Guardian, the Competition and Markets
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Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble
What happens in a country that has insufficient inward migration and a massively declining birth rate (as many, including the UK, are now at risk
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If Labour will pay more for drugs but not increase funds for the NHS, who do they expect to take the pain?
According to The Guardian: Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25%. This has followed
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Is it now game over for the Tories?
This is another morning when I have to struggle with the question of whether comments made at the Conservative Party conference are worth noting here,
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Right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march
Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?
What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild
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Strong, durable, and everlasting peace?
I note this, from the Guardian: Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of a peace plan to pause fighting and release some
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Looking for economic reality to set in
This video has just been released in the States. The interview was recorded last week. The cover picture came from the dark ages of our
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The Tory party is now proposing tyranny
I struggled with whether to comment on the Conservative Party conference this morning. I did so partly because of this YouGov poll, which shows he
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