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Michael Simmons

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Totally bonkers that the ONS is telling us that inflation fell last month when it is in fact flat. But their policy not to revise inflation means the error they made last month lives on...

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The ONS has become a dangerous joke. I've now received five press releases telling me inflation has fallen when it has not. All because the ONS wont revise their erroneous May figure. Bizarre state of affairs.

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Proud day today, after 30 years of reading the The Spectator and around a decade of contributing occasionally I have my first cover. The inside story of government thinking on Iran and Israel. In the shops soon and on the website tomorrow. Subscribe here: spectator.co.uk/join-today/?co…

Proud day today, after 30 years of reading the <a href="/spectator/">The Spectator</a> and around a decade of contributing occasionally I have my first cover. The inside story of government thinking on Iran and Israel. In the shops soon and on the website tomorrow. Subscribe here: spectator.co.uk/join-today/?co…
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My first Spectator piece: * The inside story of how the govt is dealing with Iran * Starmer’s hands tied by Hermer’s legal advice * What Labour’s national security strategy next week will say and why Labour MPs might not like it spectator.co.uk/article/starme…

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'He became part of what one former friend described as the ā€œdrugs prideā€ brigade: people who didn’t just advocate for safety and support, but who recast active addiction itself as a valid, even empowering identity. This is the sort of idea that only someone in active addiction

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This is a morally coruscating piece on the death of Peter Krykant, and those who enabled it, but it’s also a reminder that Darren is the most compelling essayist Scotland has produced in a great many years.

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Surely this is a no brainer for a party which only weeks ago promised 'never again will the Conservative Party undermine fiscal credibility'

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This is where we are headed pretty much regardless of how many MPs rebel on the benefits bill. Every MP knows how this will have to be funded but none of them seem willing to say it.

This is where we are headed pretty much regardless of how many MPs rebel on the benefits bill. Every MP knows how this will have to be funded but none of them seem willing to say it.
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šŸ’„ David Cameron thinks Robert Jenrick should be the next Tory leader šŸ’„ Tory strategists say the best they can do is to try to salvage 80 seats šŸ’„Kemi’s vision for Britain: ā€œthe same but less crapā€ šŸ’„Boris Johnson has a 5 point plan for his return spectator.co.uk/article/its-li…

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šŸ“ˆ EXCLUSIVE: Up to 1 in 4 low-paid but in-work Universal Credit claimants may have been overpaid, underpaid – or missed payments entirely. spectator.co.uk/article/reveal…