España en la casa
Al final, España en la casa. For all those who worried about the England manager’s judgement in kind of, sort of, with best intentions, managing to lose the dead rubber against Belgium, it now appears to be a masterstroke. Because even allowing for the traditional...
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The Brexit party is over
Remember the sparklers you played with on Bonfire Night as a small child? How brightly they burned? How sad and confused you felt when the flames disappeared. Remember how you clutched the tip before anyone could stop you, to try and understand where the wonder had...
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The chickens are coming home to roost for Dr. Fox
Liam Fox is a free market fanatic who wants to use Brexit as an excuse to re-engineer British society on the basis of his partisan ideology. The things he believes in would mean more insecurity, more inequality and an acceleration of the transfer of wealth from the...
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Windrush and the freedom we think nothing of.
Friday evening, Spring 2018. UK border control at Gatwick Airport. Long, long lines of people, of every origin and every creed, shuffling through the labyrinthine corridors of striped belt barrier that twist back and forth inside this vast, artificially lit chamber....
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The sacred cow of austerity inflicts madness on the NHS
I was struck by reports that hospitals are being forced to mothball beds due to a lack of staff and resources. Why, it only feels like yesterday we were being told that all our NHS problems were attributable to too many immigrants putting pressure on resources. Ergo,...
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The Brexit Sinkhole Beckons
It seems to me that the start of 2018 has been a watershed period marking a clear, unequivocal shift in the reasons and rationale behind Brexit. Until now, I think there has at least been a trace of intellectual consistency in the arguments of right wing politicians...
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