With a remit of keeping inflation at 2%…. Halving inflation is the top item on Sunak’s wish list below. Of course his personal target of halving inflation should be a sure fire winner as the prices of same period in the previous year end up gradually nearer to those of ‘today’ – the inflation has... Read more
Democracy
I enjoyed this mere two minute critique of Sunak’s recent speech – and every bit is true:... Read more
..in ten handy points, which I thought was not a bad summary:... Read more
Emma De Souza reports on how countries are tackling the rise in misinformation through the legal and education systems
I had not seen this informative video before – nine and a half minutes of background on how we got here. It is remarkable how the Tories have successfully remodelled the NHS on principles quite different from those at its its foundation – and just as remarkably how Labour has failed both to see the... Read more
How Republicans Could Steal The Next Presidential Election
The latest Republican plot to sabotage our elections could remove American voters from the process of selecting their president.
You heard that right. A case headed to the Supreme Court could let Republican controlled state legislatures overrule the will of the people and pick the next president without you.
This all hinges on a radical idea called the “independent state legislature theory.” It’s at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will decide called Moore v. Harper.
The head of cybercrime prevention in France tweeted yesterday that any attempt by Elon Musk to prevent linking to sites or comments which do not break the law is in fact, the assertion of editorial control. Musk seems to be preventing links partly to anyone he personally has a problem with, but in particular to... Read more
This is from the charts contained in the the ragingly socialist FT suggesting that our winter of discontent is an inevitable result of austerity. The article link is archived – so no excuse for not reading in full and taking in those charts…. Real wages in the UK are below where they were 18 years... Read more
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
At the end of the year of three Conservative prime ministers leading a country in crisis, AC Grayling considers what the UK can do to free itself of the constitutional and political chaos it finds itself in