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SALLUST If Rachel Reeves were to sit down and read a copy of Charles Dickens’s celebrated novel David Copperfield, she’d come across that time-honoured piece of advice from Mr Micawber: “My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” […]
Labour faces a choice: AI or net zero New technology requires data centres whose energy needs are likely to increase emissions KATHRYN PORTER The Government is a big fan of AI data centres. So much […]
Why is the British state so extortionately expensive? TIM WORSTALL Share It isn’t how the state delivers its services that costs so much, but what it promises to do in the first place It is […]
IAIN DAVIS William Hague (Baron Hague of Richmond), the former Tory leader and cabinet minister, is a close associate of Tony Blair, the former UK Labour prime minister. Hague, allegedly Blair’s historical parliamentary opponent, asserts […]
Rayner plots move against Starmer Former deputy prime minister ‘offering Cabinet roles to MPs in exchange for support’ CAMILLA TURNER Angela Rayner is laying the groundwork for a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer. The former deputy […]
CP The Government has confirmed that Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will be abolished from 2028, bringing an end to a system introduced twelve years ago to strengthen public oversight of policing. The announcement, which […]
MIGRATION WATCH UK The Home Secretary and others, including former Conservative leader Lord Hague, have suggested copying Danish asylum policies. But which of these policies, if any, have actually worked for Denmark? From confiscating asylum seekers’ […]
Her urgency exposes a government more eager to control the internet than to understand the cost of regulating it. CINDY HARPER UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall is pressing Ofcom to accelerate the rollout of the […]
The government wants more criminals out in the streets Our authorities are committed to trying everything but the solution JAMES LACHRYMOSE In modern Britain, there is a disconnection between political rhetoric and political action. Nowhere […]
After the armoured vehicle fiasco, a dud cannon to waste our billions on RICHARD NORTH IN Wednesday’s TCW I wrote about the Army’s new Ajax armoured reconnaissance vehicle and whether it is any longer relevant in the context […]
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