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I wrote earlier this week about selling social housing to tenants, and the circumstances where it could be a radical idea again,

Last Monday the Sweets Way occupiers and protesters got another week from a pleasant County Court judge in which further

I’ve always believed that fairy tales have a role in understanding the contemporary world, and therefore of politics. This sounds a

  A roomy green estate of 150 houses has been rapidly cleared of its residents, now scattered to other boroughs,

A document dropped through my door on Saturday. It was from the Allotments Association asking for our help in protecting

Take the NHS for example.  The political narrative is always about the dearth of resources available – and of course

We don’t live in a very literate age when it comes to economics.  There are still people in Whitehall, even

I had just finished reading the wonderful second volume of Alan Johnson’s autobiography, Please Mr Postman, when an advert popped

Sometimes a good idea turns round and bites you on the ankle. The Chancellor might be thinking this about the

I can’t now find the interview I heard today on the BBC about the prospects of deflation in the euro-zone.