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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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Ruby Stockham
18 February, 2016

Well done IDS

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Josiah Mortimer
18 February, 2016

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The length of this period of economic stagnation is almost unprecedented

Geoff Tily
18 February, 2016

The only era remotely comparable is the 1920s, covering the economic chaos at the end of the war and the disastrous return to the gold standard

Cameron needs some basic lessons in diplomacy

Abigail Watson
17 February, 2016

The PM has turned the EU negotiations into a one man show

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
17 February, 2016

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Martin Edobor
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Our welfare system must promote employment as well as providing a safety net

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Jude Kirton-Darling
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Being in the EU is valuable, no matter what deal is made for the benefit of Tory backbenchers

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