Politician’s pay
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
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Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
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Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
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Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
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A second Northern Ireland?
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Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?