Saturday, 5 April 2025

Over, Then

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Sent a month ago, this letter of mine appears in this month's Village Voice , having been overtaken by events, making it all the more im...
Friday, 4 April 2025

Let There Be Light

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Absolutely catastrophic news from Whitehaven, where West Cumbria Mining has officially abandoned its application for Britain’s first deep co...
Thursday, 3 April 2025

In The Waterworks

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Olly Haynes writes: Thames Water’s preferred investor KKR, previously signed a deal to manage the US municipal water company of Bayonne New...

Alternative Economic Strategy

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Donald Trump's doolally formula for calculating tariffs proves once and for all that he has no idea what he is talking about, and no con...
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Softening Up Public Opinion

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John Pring writes: The broadcasting watchdog has failed millions of disabled people by clearing two television programmes of disability dis...
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County Lines, Indeed

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Dominic Adler writes: Some ex-detectives get an allotment. Liam investigates barbershops. He isn’t a policeman anymore, but old habits appa...
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Out To Tender

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Adolescence is not about a black boy because it is not about a black boy. It is not about grooming gangs because it is not about grooming ga...
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Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Nothing Special

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10 per cent is the lowest of the Trump Tariffs, so Britain, Australia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates turn out to ...
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Reciprocal Trumping

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What a thing it must be to have no one to tell you to shut up, or get to the point, or stick to the script, or anything. Donald Trump's ...
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Preparedness? Union? Strategy?

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Professor Thomas Fazi writes: Mild feelings of panic were induced across the European Union last week, as citizens were urged to prepare fo...
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Lines and Sentences

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In the midst of everything else yesterday, the Durham Day Rover ticket went up to five pounds, an increase of 25 per cent. It is now no chea...
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Tuesday, 1 April 2025

The Eve of Liberation Day?

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France is now the third NATO member-state in rapid succession, and the second member of the EU, to have disqualified its leading Opposition ...
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A Sub-Army of Slaves

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For a year and a half, we have been told that Gaza deserved whatever it got because it supported Hamas, even though there had not been an el...
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Under The Pretext

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What colour is a snowflake? Those of us who have never not been cancelled have always known who had invented cancel culture. They never mind...
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Spinning Doctors

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Labour has been allowed back into office because it is once again the most promising vehicle for the privatisation of the National Health Se...
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