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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.
Abdullah Esquire -

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 Editorial Desk -

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.
Abdullah Esquire -

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.
Abdullah Esquire -
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.
Abdullah Esquire -
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.
The Editorial Desk -
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.
Abdullah Esquire -
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.
Abdullah Esquire -
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.
Abdullah Esquire -

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