Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 January 2021

Was Brexit meant to be this lame?

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  Remember gung-ho, priapic Boris Johnson of the referendum campaign? The moment my remainer heart sunk, the moment I knew the leave vote mi...
Sunday, 19 April 2020

Of course COVID-19 is political

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The COVID-19 pandemic should not be an excuse to score cheap political points. It is not an excuse to wish death on politicians and th...
Sunday, 9 February 2020

Wanting young people to suffer: the new sadism

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It starts out as a seemingly harmless thing that most of us have heard from our parents or grandparents: "Young people today! The...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

Tony Abbott's Brexit blather unpicked

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Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia, well-known misogynist, homophobe and climate change denier, stuck his head over the par...
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Monday, 1 May 2017

Dear Mr Hammond, a few questions on behalf of Wimbledon constituents before the election...

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Dear Mr Hammond, I know that I could email you directly, as I have done so in the past, and that you would be obliged to respond as I am ...
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Sunday, 22 May 2016

"The Turks are coming! Let's be more like Norway!" The latest Brexit campaign panic...

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Today, the Brexit campaign is warning us that if we vote to stay in the EU next month, we'll be overrun with Turks. It all exploded ...
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Thursday, 22 October 2015

Cut the crap on Chinese and Saudi human rights!

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Come on, David Cameron. Come on . If you're going to kowtow to China and Saudi Arabia, at least have the honesty to admit that it has...
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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Charity and the cult of the personality

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Today, #kidscompany and Boris Johnson were trending at the same time on Twitter. It was quite the coincidence because both stories that ...