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British Living Standards Are Going Down and the Conservatives Only Have Themselves to Blame
According to newly-published figures, inflation-adjusted living standards in Britain have fallen for five out of the last six quarters. Britons today are worse off than they were in the last quarter of 2017.
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The “National Conversation about the Future of Money” Has One Permitted Outcome: the Digital Pound
We're having a "national conversation about the future of money", according to the Bank of England. But it's clear this "conversation" has only one permitted outcome, says Dr David McGrogan: the digital pound.
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Democrats Are Also in (Election) Denial
A survey has found that half of Democrat voters endorse election conspiracies, which is only slightly less than the proportion of Republican voters who do so. Election denial is a bipartisan problem.
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German President Compares AfD Supporters to “Rats”
Two weeks after a leading member of a party in Germany’s governing coalition compared AfD supporters to "flies on a pile of shit", German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has now compared them to "rats".
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Coming Up Trumps
As Trump closes in on the Republican nomination, Professor James Allan looks ahead to the clash with Biden and predicts a second Trump term when he wins in November.
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Academic Publishing is a Racket
Academic publishing has become a racket, says Dr. David Livermore. Authors pay thousands to get their articles in, editors and referees are practically slave-labour, but publishing houses like Elsevier are raking it in.
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Scandals Should Not Take Decades to Expose
As with the Post Office Horizon scandal, so with the tainted blood scandal – wrongdoing and cover-ups should not take decades to expose. Yet history is repeating itself with the Covid vaccines, says Philip Leith.
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Cash and its Enemies Part II: The Opportunities and Risks of CBDCs
Should we fear CBDCs? In part II of our guide to the War on Cash, we look at Central Bank Digital Currencies and the risks and opportunities they entail.
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What is cash, why is it on the decline, why are governments complicit in getting rid of it, and why is there pushback against the 'War on Cash'? Get up to speed with our explainer.
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These Shadowy Trials of MPs Undermine Our Sovereign Parliament
In the Britain of the 2020s, politicians have the habit of abruptly disappearing, the victim of one or other parliamentary standards body. These shadowy pseudo-courts undermine our sovereign parliament, says J. Sorel.
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