Will the Tories bounce back?
Saturday, April 8th, 2023The Tories are apparently in relatively confident mood at present. They think Sunak is working well for them, even if the low bar for comparison
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Are the Tories in the mood for an election?
Saturday, March 18th, 2023There are rumours about that the Tories are switching into election mode, with an early autumn election on the cards. The thinking is not that
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Groupthink creates Bank failure and prevents banking reform
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023Groupthink is immensely powerful. As I noted yesterday: KPMG issued a clean audit report on the 31 December 2022 accounts of Silicon Valley Bank on
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You cannot create change by keeping the system that delivered failure in place. Until Labout realises that it has no chance of delivering what this country wants.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023Lost amongst yesterday’s Northern Ireland deal was Keir Starmer’s speech on how he is going to deliver the highest rate of growth in the G7
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Is the Tory right broken?
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023The video in this tweet is interesting. There we were thinking Steve Baker had only changed his facial hair… Instead it turns out he’s had
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Sunak puts the DUP between a rock and a hard place
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023Sunak has, as everyone expected, got a deal on Northern Ireland. Let me not be churlish. It is a better deal than I expected. He
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Cleaning up Sunak and Johnson’s mess
Monday, February 27th, 2023Rishi Sunak will hope he gets a deal on Northern Ireland today. So do I. Most especially for the people of Northern Ireland. It is
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The one organisation with no answer to the issues in Northern Ireland is the UK government
Friday, February 24th, 2023This Tweet was put out by the Peston programme on ITV on Wednesday based on polling Queen’s University Belfast had done: https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1628520534089646092?s=20 That is a
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The Irish question
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023Issues relating to Ireland have been troublesome for British politics for centuries. Since 1802, when the Irish parliament was subsumed into that in Westminster, the
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