Showing posts with label Philip Hammond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Hammond. Show all posts
Monday, 2 September 2019

Boris coup: Day 6

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Confidence is surging in the Downing Street junta on Day 6 of the Boris coup. Indeed, Boris Johnson is so sure of himself that he’s decide...
Thursday, 1 November 2018

How the hard left embraces the right

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The trouble with the hard left is that it has no anchor. The hard left, including the group that currently controls the British Labour Par...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Austerity buried? And the NHS too?

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Britain has a new budget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, for whom the word ‘beleaguered’ might have been specifically in...
Sunday, 15 October 2017

None of the above, when October feels like November

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October in England this year has had many days that felt like September at its best, but a few that resembled November at its gloomiest. Tha...
Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Stephen Hawking identifies another black hole, called Corbyn

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The possessor of one of the most formidable minds of the world today, Stephen Hawking, has joined the growing chorus of Labour supporters ca...
Monday, 3 October 2016

The Devil's tunes. And his great singers in the Tory Party

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The devil, they say, has the best tunes. In the Tory Party, he ’s lined up some fine  singers. I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll be sa...
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Monday, 19 October 2015

The bishops denounced the government that fawned on China that bought the companies that cripple the people...

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There’s something wonderful about news stories that tumble in on top of each other, reinforcing each other and occasionally producing some d...
Thursday, 20 August 2015

Immigration: time to get the question right

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In 1951, Rosalind Franklin took a series of pictures of DNA which a colleague, J.D. Bernal, described as “amongst the most beautiful X-ray p...