Showing posts with label Rachel Reeves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Reeves. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1508

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"Between calling for an end to 'the postwar neutering of Germany and Japan' and a reinstatement of the draft, Palantir also dem...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Ed Davey on Hillary Clinton, restive Lib Dem MPs and chess

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Ed Davey has been talking to Hillary Clinton: "We talked about how we need to fight Reform in the way they need to fight Donald Trump, ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Joy of Six 1494

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"After months of rhetoric from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves blaming newts and bats for supposedly blocking growth, it’s good to see t...
Monday, December 01, 2025

The Joy of Six 1443

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"Companies that have collaborated with immigration enforcement agencies in various ways to aid Trump’s mass deportation initiative – wh...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1426

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"Left to her own devices, Reeves would not be contemplating potentially highly damaging tax increases when the economy is weak. Likewis...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Chancellor announces £1.5m fund for Britain's elite chess players

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Rishi Sunak established a £500,000 fund to support Britain's elite chess players when he was prime minister. The new Labour government s...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

The Joy of Six 1380

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"Since the Truss debacle, the UK has had to pay a substantial premium over other G7 countries to borrow in the bond markets. In other w...
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Sunday, June 08, 2025

From Liberator: Such people write about Lincolnshire as though they were Victorian explorers or missionaries

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The new Liberator - issue 429 - is out and can be downloaded free of charge from the magazine's website. As well as Lord Bonkers' D...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

The Joy of Six 1329

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"Buying stuff we didn’t know we wanted, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t know has become a cultural obsession, made...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Robert Jenrick: In the real world, If you lie about your CV you resign

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Rachel Reeves and Jonathan Reynolds have been embarrassed in recent days by inaccuracies in their CVs on LinkedIn. And these were perfectl...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

When British culture really is under threat, the culture warriors are nowhere to be seen

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Peter Black flags up a story from the Independent : Hundreds of theatres face closure and more than 500 museums have shut since the turn of...
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Friday, December 13, 2024

Vince Cable nails Labour's "big mistake" in opposition

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The University of York student newspaper York Vision has an interview with the city's famous son Vince Cable. Asked for his reaction to...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Michael Gove on why elected politicians have to fight against 'Treasury brain'

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Rachel Reeves is starting to make Danny Alexander look like a maverick economic expansionist, but maybe the reason they succumbed to orthodo...
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Monday, September 30, 2024

The Joy of Six 1273

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James Crouch argues that the greatest challenge the Conservative Party faces is a lack of unity among both its members and its remaining vo...
Monday, September 23, 2024

How Harold Wilson dealt with hecklers

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Rachel Reeves was heckled during her conference speech today. Naturally, the man responsible was grabbed by security and bundled out of the...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2024

The Joy of Six 1255

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"I am a paid-up Liberal Democrat and an unreconstructed Keynesian. In the recent election, I voted for Labour as a tactical measure to ...
Monday, July 29, 2024

On not being convinced by the case for axing winter fuel payments

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I've seen many tweets in favour of Rachel Reeves's decision to stop making winter fuel payments to pensioners unless they are on wel...
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Sunday, December 03, 2023

Lord Bonkers' Diary: I toss the volume aside

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If I look back on this entry in years (or perhaps only months) to come, I shall have no idea what the old boy was on about. Wednesday I sett...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Austerity: Will Labour activists still stick their fingers in their ears?

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#57210802 / gettyimages.com For those prepared to listen it has always been clear that a Labour government would implement auster...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

What is wrong with Ed Balls may not be what you think

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We are frequently told that if Labour came to power and Ed Balls became chancellor he would borrow and spend too much and bankrupt the count...