Running down the uk’s services was a political choice. but our leaders don’t seem to grasp basic cause and effect

“Is Britain having a collective nervous breakdown?” asks Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times. Almost two-thirds of voters think we are heading in the wrong direction, while our government has “go

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And so it goes on. The government is to reconsider its decision not to compensate women hit by changes to the state-pension age. Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary at the time who made that

LETTERS

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol