Objectively the Brexit agreement is an awful deal that we’re going to long regret
Monday, December 28th, 2020I posted this not long ago as a Twitter thread: The more I read it the more I am perplexed by the Brexit deal. It
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How do we make a new politics based on caring?
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020I wish this year was not ending as it was. I know I am far from alone. 2020 will be remembered, but not with much
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Macroeconomics, money and post-Brexit recovery, all in one Twitter thread
Saturday, December 12th, 2020This Twitter thread, published this morning, took about four hours and 40 years of thinking to write… I keep hearing people complain that the ‘mainstream
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The aim now is not to Remain. The aim is to Rebuild. And Rebuild we must.
Friday, December 11th, 2020I posted this as a Twitter thread last night: As those I know best could confirm, I have long feared a No Deal Brexit. I
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Brexit chaos was entirely predictable because the world works on routine, and Brexit breaks all the routine systems on which trade has relied
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020Every newspaper has the story that Honda has stopped production today. The issue is straightforward: port logistics are stopping them getting the parts that they
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The EU talks: stuck somewhere between English arrogance and inability
Monday, December 7th, 2020There is only one news story this morning. It is as if the world has put all else on hold. Brexit is the issue of
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Question Time is recruiting and informed people need to apply
Friday, December 4th, 2020I am sharing this in full from the BBC because I believe there are commentators here more than able to fill the role the BBC
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When abstention is the only option
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020Labour is sitting out today’s Covid 19 lockdown vote. It would be wise of the SNP to do the same. This is an English vote.
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Scotland is leaving the UK whatever Rees-Mogg thinks
Saturday, November 28th, 2020The capacity of the current government to shock is astonishing. Yesterday there came this: Under Labour, our constitution was vandalised and the whole of the
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