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There is a peculiar danger in politics when the spreadsheet says one thing and the electorate feels something entirely different. The Government can point, perfectly legitimately, to its preferred measure and say that small-boat crossings are down this year. On 25 August, the Home Office said exactly that, adding that July recorded the lowest July…
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💷👀Britain needs more money. Again. The national wallet is apparently making that worrying little squeaking noise it makes shortly before somebody in Westminster starts looking around for a fresh pair of pockets. Borrowing is expensive, the Budget is approaching, the sums are getting uncomfortable, and somewhere inside the Treasury a calculator is presumably smoking gently…
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If Jamaica wants to pursue Britain over slavery reparations, then before anybody starts calculating what today’s British taxpayer supposedly owes, there is a fairly obvious question to ask: who actually sat at the top of the system? It wasn’t the pensioner in Newcastle, the nurse in Glasgow, the builder in Birmingham or the family paying…

