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Paying Scandinavian taxes for a British reality
Reeves delivers a Budget which expands the state and cuts child poverty, relying on record tax and threshold freezes, but offers little comfort to those worried about stagnant wages, no investment, and threadbare services.
Labour’s austerity loop of managed decline
Inside the headroom illusion: why tax freezes, stealth hikes and shrinking services could turn Labour’s “grown-up” budget into a slow-motion crisis for Britain.
The Roy Cohn Test
How a radical Queens mayor, a ghost from Manhattan’s past, and a sulking tech billionaire explain the kind of charisma Donald Trump cannot resist.
The Britain left unheard now roars back
How changing streets, new languages and unanswered letters turned quiet voters into the loudest voice in British politics.
Suffocating the Middle
Paying Scandinavian taxes for a British reality
Reeves delivers a Budget which expands the state and cuts child poverty, relying on record tax and threshold freezes, but offers little comfort to those worried about stagnant wages, no investment, and threadbare services.
The Politics of Less
Labour’s austerity loop of managed decline
Inside the headroom illusion: why tax freezes, stealth hikes and shrinking services could turn Labour’s “grown-up” budget into a slow-motion crisis for Britain.
Ideologues over Ideology
The Roy Cohn Test
How a radical Queens mayor, a ghost from Manhattan’s past, and a sulking tech billionaire explain the kind of charisma Donald Trump cannot resist.
The Kingdom at War
The Britain left unheard now roars back
How changing streets, new languages and unanswered letters turned quiet voters into the loudest voice in British politics.
The old guard's demise
Is this the death of Cosmopolitan Labour?
A Muslim Home Secretary is doing what Labour’s professional class never dared to do, and England is listening.
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