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There is a breathtaking audacity to the state using tax-funded local television advertising to hound you into saving for retirement, while quietly sharpening its cutlery to carve up the very nest egg it begged you to build. The pitch from ministers is simple enough to fit on a colorful leaflet: be a good, responsible citizen,…
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In a display of geographic ambition that has left constitutional lawyers scratching their heads and cartographers reaching for their compasses, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has unveiled the grand machinery of “Number 10 North.” The objective, we are told, is to break the iron grip of London centralism by creating a shiny new hub of governance…
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Breakfast television has long been a place where mild morning pleasantries mask a ruthless, subterranean battle for sofa supremacy. The latest report of friction between veteran broadcaster Susanna Reid and her presumed heir-apparent, Tilly, reveals the classic ITV formula at work: take a routine workplace transition, add a dash of generational insecurity, and spin it…

