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Another Fine Mess

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/6senVX4u-80 ) Where to now then? With the budget little over a week away the only thing we know is that we don’t know. How to balance the books without breaking a key pre-election promise? Anyone’s guess. Nor do we have any idea who turned the entire Downing Street operation inside out by suggesting Sir Keir Starmer was for the chop. But all these mysteries do feel seriously intertwined. To sort the money thing first, or at least take

13 hours ago5 min read

A Rich Man's World?

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/g9MStXRePDw ) It’s turning into the mother of hoary old chestnuts. Yeah yeah, Labour’s going to do what it promised not to. Whack up income tax. It’s getting as boring as Keir Starmer endlessly banging on about his dad being a toolmaker. Tell us something new. Please. And yet what’s going on actually is new, as governments are not in the habit of fessing up to the hole they’re in. Consider the alternative. Chancellor Rachel Reeves wai

Nov 85 min read

One for the History Books

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/C4pHdMgWUWs ) No denying it’s been quite the week, what with the British monarchy rocked to its foundations and the British government scraping through the mother of all near misses. But as the immediate hullabaloo settles down the underlying sense of near crisis shows no sign of going away, as the huge question of how much we’re all going to have to shell out to keep UK PLC afloat still hangs over us. To most observers the very wors

Nov 15 min read

A Bit of a Muddle

Pretty much wherever you look, things aren’t going to plan. In some areas ominously, in others farcically. With signs that the Gaza peace deal is fraying dangerously at the edges the bloody tension’s spilling over as far as British football fields. At the same time alleged Chinese espionage is tying the government in knots. As a result the bit that really matters to all of us is getting lost in the fog. To deal with the funny business first, what started as a right-wing new

Oct 195 min read