UK economy shrinks by worst in over 3 years
Contraction worst since March 2016 The UK’s economy shrank in April by 0.4%, the worst fall in more than three years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). An […]
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Follow-up to viral Corbyn/FBPE-takedown thread is just as much a must-read
On New Year’s Day, the SKWAWKBOX published a Twitter thread by writer and academic Shaun Lawson in which he dismantled, brick by brick, the perverse misdirections used by the ‘FBPE’/remain-obsessive […]
400k to lose mobility benefit & car for walking 20m? Just not cricket!
As a report by the excellent campaign group ‘We are Spartacus’ (WaS) disclosed yesterday, the government is going to change the rules around “mobility component” assessments for disabled people when […]
Rees-Mogg’s BBC QT 38%/1%/26% – what he WASN’T telling you
The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might think that a flood wouldn’t present […]
A radical socialist idea: abolish corporation tax?
I wrote a couple of days ago about how taxation should properly be seen as a rent that is paid for the privilege of living in a well-structured, orderly society, […]
Cameron’s latest ‘inherited mess’ lie – a little more subtle, but no less deceitful
A hopefully short but very necessary post. On Monday, in the House of Commons, David Cameron did it again. Challenged by Ed Miliband on his complete failure to secure any […]