Monday, 26 November 2018

Brexit Blues: How dreams can become nightmares if you try to make them real

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While I was writing I couldn’t get this out of my head.  Some time ago this bunch of people had a crazy dream. They hated the union...
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Thursday, 22 November 2018

Why Theresa May should not get anyone’s sympathy vote

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She may have fortitude in the face of misfortune, and it is easy to feel sympathy for her in comparison to the Brexiters in the Conservati...
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Monday, 19 November 2018

Poverty in the UK: radical social re-engineering

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There was a revealing exchange between Krishnan Guru-Murthy and a Treasury minister after Channel 4 led with the UN Special Rapporteur’s r...
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Friday, 16 November 2018

Brexit. Of course everyone hates a compromise, but like much else its the best option, isn't it?

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This is the argument put forward by May and her supporters, but rather more significantly it is also the case argued by Martin Sandbu here...
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Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Governments of fools?

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Dominic Raab was widely mocked for his remarks about only recently understanding the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing (I defy any...
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Saturday, 10 November 2018

If May loses her Brexit vote, what happens next?

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If the withdrawal agreement is defeated in parliament (due to too many Brexiters and Tory Remainers voting against and not enough Labour r...
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018

The Lies We Were Told

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Many of the key events of the last eight years have a common thread to them. In the case of austerity, the Eurozone crisis, the 2015 UK el...
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