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The Scottish Independent Labour Party leader in the 1930s, Jimmy Maxton, summed up the challenge of political leadership as well as anybody ever has: “If you...
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For the third year running, independent research undertaken by two philosophically opposed Right and Left think tanks finds that basic standards of evidence and consultation-based policy...
The late, great comedian John Clarke always said that the best actors he had ever heard were sports commentators. The reason, he explained, was that they...