Just wait: politicians will be shaking the magic money tree very soon
Monday, April 15th, 2024The situation in the Middle East looks to be very volatile. Israel’s attack on an Iranian embassy has given rise to an almost inevitable counter
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There is no indication that the Labour Party has any predisposition to be radical
Monday, April 15th, 2024Andrew Rawnsley suggested in The Observer yesterday that Labour could be a radical government despite the fact that it has no money to spend. His suggestion
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On mistakes
Sunday, April 14th, 2024I am human. I make mistakes. I did so yesterday in the video that we put outin the video that we put out. Instead of
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Why doesn’t Labour want to be in government forever?
Saturday, April 13th, 2024I just posted this short video on YouTube, TikTok and elsewhere: And, yes, the video does include a mistake. I say first past the post
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Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax
Saturday, April 13th, 2024The Guardian is reporting this morning that: “People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah, the chief executive of Blick Rothenberg,
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Ben Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England was doomed from the outset because he didn’t ask the right questions
Saturday, April 13th, 2024There has been lots of comment in the media on the criticisms that former chair of the US Federal Reserve and economics Nobel prize winner,
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The TikTok experiment
Friday, April 12th, 2024The TikTok experiment seems to be working. This one has had more than 50,000 views in a day or so, and the number of followers
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Starmer's commitment to nuclear power is all about electioneering
Friday, April 12th, 2024The front page of the Mail today apparently looks like this: I am not too concerned about OJ Simpson, and I will let the Grand
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Is Rachel Reeves serious about tackling tax abuse?
Friday, April 12th, 2024I asked the question that heads this post in The National yesterday, starting by noting that: IN the 1960s the US writer and civil rights
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