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Welcome to my day: 14 August 2023 – whilst there are still some grouse left…

The newspapers seem to be full of stories either questioning what future the Conservative Party has given the prospect of a solid thrashing at some point in the next fifteen months or so or bemoaning what it might do in the time it has left. It does require a sense of manic optimism to believe that a government which appears to have given up on addressing the issues that actually matter to the public can actually turn things around.

And yet, the public mood is fickle. It isn’t that long ago that the Conservatives were leading in the polls fairly comfortably, …

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  • Steve Trevethan
    Might the attached article be of interest and/or relevance? https://michael-hudson.com/2026/07/americas-war-on-an-independent-world/...
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    @David Raw If your accusation is that I am a good liberal - which includes economic liberalism - I plead guilty - as would the Lib Dem element of the coaliti...
  • Tristan Ward
    @ Judy Abel (cont) Painful as they are for the consumer, right now I think high oil and gas prices are a good thing. They incentivise the transition to chea...
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  • Tim Rogers
    Another example of an increasingly multi polar world. Obviously Iran will be uppermost in people's minds but India Israel Cyprus and Greece have all had recent ...