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This analysis piece summarising the results from the BBC is just gob-smacking. Here, in order, are their four big takeawayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57031010 1) Time for Scottish independence2) Incumbents did well3) Labour stil

My column today is on the dire state of the public finances, and why Rishi really does need to take Boris’s credit card away. Please do read the full thing,

One important point re the ‘austerity is back’ narrative - it isn’t. The plan in this @Telegraph leak isn’t to make cuts to pay for the £300 billion spending hit

Whisper it but maybe those behavioural insights guys had a point about lockdown fatigue. (Though all the polling I’ve seen suggests that the public are a great deal more pro-lockdown

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: Last year, I lost my wife Andrea to a liver disease called autoimmune hepatitis. It’s one of those conditions that’s rare enough to be significantly underfunded, but

My favourite coronavirus supply chain fact - there is a massive glut of potatoes because while the British love to eat them, they only do so in the form of

Great spot from @MattSingh_ - polling of Labour members quietly slipped out by the RLB campaign. Key takeaway for me is just how much, in policy terms, this is still

Just to bring everyone down on a sunny Sunday afternoon, I’ve spent most of the past week talking to people/thinking about the eventual recovery, and it’s all looking a bit

It's been pointed out before, especially re the Waspi £58 billion, but it really is striking when you peer into the detail how slapdash Labour's numbers are. (1/?) For example,