Borrowing figures: Another sign the Chancellor's Budget has not worked OBR Report: Farm tax will penalise farmers for practically no benefit Cole-Hamilton: SNP must scrap social care power grab now OBR Report: Farm tax will penalise Welsh farmers for practically no benefit OBR Report: Farm tax will penalise farmers and crofters for little benefit to Exchequer Cross-border healthcare difficulties letting patients down Borrowing figures: Another sign the Chancellor's Budget has not worked Responding to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing UK borrowing has hit its highest December level for four years, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson, Daisy Cooper ...
Unemployment: Reeves must scrap jobs tax Southport Inquiry: Must get us answers to avoid future failures WASPI: More than 300,000 women in Scotland "betrayed" by Labour decision Welsh unemployment rise: Labour must scrap their Jobs Tax Cole-Hamilton: SNP have left A&E in state of perma-crisis McArthur: Community orders should be credible solutions to prison overcrowding Unemployment: Reeves must scrap jobs tax Responding to the latest figures showing unemployment at 4.4%, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said: These latest figures are concerning. The government's misguided jobs tax is already scaring off small businesses from hiring new people and being ...
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Five Lib Dems quiz Starmer on social care, Trump, defence, eating disorders and colleges
Social care, trade deals with Trump's America, St Helier Hospital, the Strategic Defence Reivew, eating disorders and were the subjects brought to Keir Starmer by Lib Dems Ed Davey, Luke Taylor, Mike Martin, Wera Hobhouse and Alison Bennett at PMQs today. Here's Ed's exchange with the Prime Minister: The text is below: I echo the Prime Minister's opening remarks about the Southport killings and Holocaust Memorial Day, and I particularly join him in expressing our immense relief at the release of Emily Damari and in celebrating that she is back with her mum Mandy and the rest of her family. ...
Writing in the London Review of Books, Adam Tooze begins his review of More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz thus: Any hope we have of containing the escalating climate crisis depends on getting to net zero, which will mean cutting greenhouse gas emissions drastically in the next few decades. Coal, gas and oil will have to be replaced with clean energy sources. In the language of climate policy, this is known as the green energy transition and is often presented as the latest in a series of transitions that have shaped modern history. ...
Then again... I love this: you hardly need to ask for subtitles. German satire could be the trend of 2025.
On days like this I wonder where Lord Bonkers' family is. Perhaps being immortal, whether through bathing in the spring that bursts from the ground beneath the former headquarters of the Association of Liberal Councillors or that cordial the Elves of Rockingham Forest sell, is bound to leave one lonely? Christmas Day This is what Christmas used to be like at the Hall! A long table simply groaning with good things and lined by friends, relations, staff, Liberal peers and MPs, members of Earl Russell's Big Band, resourceful orphans, elves and the like. Here, Daisy Cooper is discussing economic policy ...
Farage and Musk are the past, not the future Seeing someone called a "snivelling cretin" may reinforce all your worst fears about social media. But when it was Elon Musk saying this of Ed Davey, it counts as a badge of honour. It also illustrates a bigger, and more important, point than 'look how thin skinned and short of things to say a billionaire is when anyone stands up to him'. It is about how little to say about our future the likes of Nigel Farage and Elon Musk have beyond nostalgia for an imagined version of our past. For ...
In 1963 an Observer headline "Our image of God must go" rocked organised Christianity in these islands, primarily because the call came from John Robinson, the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich. He was addressing the problem of "anthropomorphism", making God into a person, a quasi-human who sat above the clouds, waiting to catch us out like a grumpy and arbitrary tyrant. Many people spoke about God as a being who could simply turn on or off hurricanes, earthquakes or serious illnesses. Robinson's take on God seemed eminently refreshing to many of us studying theology at the time. A couple of decades ...
In recent months, we have had several concerns about infrequent mail deliveries in the Oxford Street area. We raised this with the Senior Public Affairs Manager at Royal Mail and received this response : "Thank you for your recent communication regarding mal deliveries to Oxford Street served by Dundee West Delivery Office. I am always disappointed when I hear that any of our customers do not feel that they are receiving the service that they ought to. I have spoken with the Customer Operations Manager who covers the area. They have advised that mail deliveries to Oxford Street have been ...
The Independent reports that one of the key questions of the second Trump presidency is how his policies are going to affect businesses and, in turn, share prices. Well the conversion of the big Tech companies to the cause has gone very well for them. Political alliances are already seeing US-based businesses step further into the limelight, with Elon Musk in particular a regular face - and voice - throughout Trump's campaign but it's not just Musk who has been involved, with former White House chief strategist labelling the Tesla boss, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg "supplicants" who "surrendered" to ...
