The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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From Bloomberg yesterday, the above, and: Before the crowdfunder finishes tomorrow, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at:Crowdfunder at:  by…

The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…

FURTHER talks are expected to take place as part of the latest bid to break the Drumcree parade stand-off, which has now entered a fourth day

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Politicians and economic commentators constantly talk about “taxpayers’ money”. In this video, I argue that this phrase fundamentally misrepresents how government spending and taxation work. The conventional story says that the government collects taxes and then uses that money to pay for schools, hospitals, pensions and other public services. I argue...

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

On Newsnight, last night, the above was clear with the implication that Scottish pensioners will be impoverished to pay a new national care service in England. Before the crowdfunder finishes tomor…

The Israeli lies just go from bad to worse. At what point is someone going to admit Netanyahu played the U.S. over October 7? Tens of thousands of innocent people have died in a war which didn’t need...

He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States

I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.