Politico noted last night: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday joined a growing European backlash against the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. The
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I am tired of war
War dominates the headlines again, but behind the geopolitics lies something much simpler: human exhaustion. People are tired of conflict, tired of anger, tired of
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Where did you come from?
We have begun to do some analysis on the feedback from our event in Cambridge on 28th February. The thing that has surprised us, perhaps
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Libel law still needs reform
This is excellent news from the Good Law Project: The High Court has dismissed an £8m defamation claim brought against a journalist, branding it “spectacularly inflated” and
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Mandelson
There are four things to say about the the Mandelson papers: Starmer knew about Epstein, as did McSweeney. They appointed him anyway. They did not
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Goodbye, your Lordships
As The Guardian has noted: Hereditary peerages will be abolished before the next king’s speech after a deal was struck granting life peerages to some
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Interest rates can’t fix inflation now
Inflation is likely to rise again, but governments are reaching for the wrong solution. When policymakers see inflation, they instinctively raise interest rates and try
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Never doubt the callousness of private sector markets
This headline is in an FT newsletter this afternoon: What is the message? It is that what the FT and Goldman Sachs describe as the
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