Merry Christmas from me – and of course from our wonderfully tin-eared, out of touch Prime Minister, who seems to think that people visiting homeless shelters should work in finance:... Read more
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A remarkable story has surfaced in yesterday’s Mail on line saying that Civil Servants have been getting shopping vouchers as part of an annual reward: Millions of pounds worth of Greggs, Nandos and Primark vouchers have been handed out to reward Civil Servants this year. The vouchers are , it seems, worth up to £100... Read more
The Independent has already suggested that two thirds of junior doctors are considering leaving the NHS, but the fact that this is also disclosed in the right wing Spectator (previously edited by Boris Johnson) means that personally I am convinced it is true. It provides even more evidence that we have a government that is... Read more
Well, this article by Rachel Reeves in the Telegraph gives me some albeit, fairly folorn, hope. It is a peon of praise for her old school. Because my mum and dad were primary school teachers I respected other teachers and wanted them to like me and have a good impression of me. I do care... Read more
These are all good things that John McDonnell suggests and much to be admired – but he really does look washed out, poor man… Even more importantly, even after all those years as shadow chancellor he still has no idea that money is actually always the state’s… He talks of a control on energy costs... Read more
I had a list of new year’s resolutions this year, which I wrote and then forgot about, but at some level have been trying to complete ever since. Let me dig them up; hold on. Ah, here they are. Well, I’m not losing any weight, but I am managing to live stream pretty often. I […]
Emma DeSouza reports on the implications for remain-voting Northern Ireland and the Union of Ireland's positive relationship with the EU, amid ongoing complications over the Protocol
As some of you may know, I am now publishing a weekly substack of articles I’ve found interesting on the net and in some cases offering some summary commentary. In an unprecedented move, the kind of once in a 1,000 … Continue reading
Manasa Narayanan speaks to people who are homeless, surviving on Westminster's streets in the shadow of Parliament