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Andrew Fisher

The Guardian

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Freebies, bin strikes and a system that is rigged against you

Freebies, bin strikes and a system that is rigged against you
24.03.2025 9

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What Rachel Reeves should do instead of cutting benefits

10.03.2025 5

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Labour is hanging debt-stricken councils out to dry

25.02.2025 20

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Once again, it's more money for London and nothing for the North

27.01.2025 3

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Being boring won Labour an election - it won't help them now

13.01.2025 4

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Keir Starmer seems to have forgotten his words about Clement Attlee

The Labour Government begins 2025 deeply unpopular, falling in the polls and with its leader’s personal ratings plummeting. There is no mystery as...

30.12.2024 3

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Starmer's 'reset' speech can't hide how badly he is doing

This week Sir Keir Starmer will be giving a speech setting out his “Plan for Change”. No 10 spinners defensively brief that “it’s not a...

05.12.2024 10

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Labour's now punishing the young and unemployed - I despair

As you age you’re supposed to grow envious of the freedom, looks, and athleticism of the young. Once upon a time you could have added opportunities...

18.11.2024 30

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The case for the four day week is becoming impossible to ignore

In 1930, the eminent British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay entitled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. At the...

05.11.2024 2

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The taxes Labour should actually increase – but probably won't

It is less than four months since Labour took office. Too early, perhaps, to talk about make or break moments – but the Government’s first Budget...

21.10.2024 3

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The problems Morgan McSweeney and James Lyons will bring to No 10

The firebrand Labour MP Dennis Skinner once said to the Tories, “When posh boys are in trouble, they sack the servants”. At the time, two special...

07.10.2024 20

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There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of Labour’s economic strategy

Is austerity over? That is the question that hung over Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour conference. The doom and gloom talk of a...

23.09.2024 2

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We have nothing to learn from Giorgia Meloni about immigration

“Stop the boats,” said Rishi Sunak. He didn’t. “Annual net migration in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands,” declared...

16.09.2024 2

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Labour's winter fuel rhetoric is a farce

The economic case for cutting winter fuel payments to 10 million pensioners simply does not stack up. But that has not stopped Labour ministers...

09.09.2024 2

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Keir Starmer is determined to make us miserable

When Labour was elected by a landslide in July it was with the simple but optimistic slogan “Change”. People naturally interpreted that as change...

26.08.2024 6

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Unions don't kill growth – but Tory governments do

For years, workers in the UK have suffered real-terms cuts to their pay. The last Parliament (2019-2024) stands out as the only one in post-war...

21.08.2024 2

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I do not own a car but am still strongly opposed to any increase in fuel duty

Labour has a huge funding gap to make up. The Tories left the public finances in a poor state: a weak economy, underfunded public services and huge...

12.08.2024 3

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Rachel Reeves looks increasingly like the heir to George Osborne

When Rachel Reeves told the House of Commons that “difficult decisions” lay ahead, she fired the starting gun on a debate that we should have had...

29.07.2024 1

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Keir Starmer has prioritised wealth over child welfare

By failing to overturn the two-child benefit cap, and other social security cuts, Labour is prioritising the wealth of the rich over the welfare of...

17.07.2024 2

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