What a President might say that a monarch cannot
Monday, May 1st, 2023I noted an excellent speech made by Irish President Michael Higgins late last week. Given at the 20th anniversary of the Irish think tank TASC,
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We can have a better NHS, but not without spending a lot more money on it and Wes Streeting should be honest about that
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023Wes Streeting MP, Labour’s shadow Health Secretary announced his plans for NHS reform last Friday, but you have to work very hard to find any
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As with Johnson, the case against Trump all boils down to his dishonesty
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023I spent too much time last evening reading speeches by members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee whilst simultaneously watching coverage of former
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The time to move towards the EU has arrived
Sunday, February 12th, 2023As the Guardian has revealed today, a combination of government and opposition leaders together with senior civil servants and business representatives (but notably, apparently no
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Is the BBC's reporting on economics impartial?
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023The BBC commissioned a report from Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot that was submitted to the BBC in November and has now been published. It
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If we want a decent society ministers have to take their duties to regulate, to tax and to stamp out criminal abuse seriously. Ours treat all three as unnecessary.
Monday, November 28th, 2022There was an article in the Sunday Times yesterday on the creation of what are being called ‘burner companies’. The links are in this Tweet
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What next for Truss?
Monday, October 3rd, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Few weeks come like the last one. The problem now is what will follow it, because the
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The Tories: what next?
Friday, April 22nd, 2022I have posted this thread to Twitter this morning: There is an old truism that suggests that the Leader of the Conservatives always enjoys the
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We don't have a cost of living crisis We have a cost of resource exploitation crisis as people are priced out of living accommodation, energy and food by landlords and energy companies
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022As the Guardian has noted in an email this morning: A group of Conservative politicians and their allies are attempting to derail the government’s green
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