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The difference

I forget what motivated me to go and look it up, but a few days ago looked into a comparison of the British and Irish economy between shortly after arriving in 2014 and finally leaving in 2021. Below is the … Continue reading

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The turning point?

Last week was a piece in the FT which at first I was just going to bookmark, but thinking about it if the article was in any way right Labour may well already be doomed to being a single-term government. … Continue reading

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The next UK election

Labour currently have a large majority but it is on the lowest share of the vote for a winning party since such records began in 1830, and the last election was about clearing out a government that ended up with … Continue reading

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