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Somewhere on the left. My opinions and not those of any publications for which I write.

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Jackdaw won't reduce consumer gas bills. But it will be a massive boost for profits at Shell and Equinor, and surely that's what counts here?

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Lord Archer gets caught trying to nick three suits. No charges. Richard Madeley walks out of Tesco without paying for champagne. Acquitted. Giles Coren justifies skipping the tills at Sainsbury's in a column in The Times. It's almost as if there's a theme here.

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A Guardian headline proclaims 'everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock'. Given that it's the worst state pension in Europe, there's actually a case for doubling it.

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Bowie and the Tom Robinson Band made me question homophobia, hanging out at reggae gigs helped me reject my parents' racism, hearing The Clash drew me towards leftwing politics. And now now Laura Kuenssberg is questioning whether musicians should take political stances?

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The late novelist W Somerset Maugham famously described Monaco as 'a sunny place for shady people'. And I guess that reputation still holds.

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I care so much about Britain that I'm going to live in Monaco

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Companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received state support to the tune of £630m in recent years. Now this 'wealth creator' is leaving the country because he doesn't want to pay taxes and doesn't like black and brown people.

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The Torygraph claims Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has lived 'in exile' since his arrest last February. Karl Marx, Emma Goldman and Che Guevara lived in exile; the man who remains eighth in line to the British thrown lives on Sandringham estate.

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Boris Johnson stuffed the BBC full of Tory placemen, some of whom facilitated six-figures personal loans to support his lifestyle. Now Kemi Badenoch is having a hissy fit because a trade unionist has been given a symbolic place on the Bank of England board.

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Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

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Scrapping inheritance tax would help 40,000 rich families a year. And do sweet FA for 4.2m people in food poverty.

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Nigel Farage's key advisor served prison time in the US for offering to launder money for a cocaine cartel. Even if Labour tightens the rules on political donations, Posh George is clearly an inventive chap.

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Democracy means one person, one vote. Not two billionaires, one party.

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There's a huge difference between political donations from hundreds of thousands of individual of trade unionists giving a few quid each and trousering £70m-plus from two dodgy crypto billionaires. You'd have to be wilfully blind not to see that.

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Reform UK has its own dedicated television station, favourable coverage from the BBC, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail, a readiness to appeal to racists and £70m in the bank. Doesn't look much like a 'level playing field' to me.

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Reform UK is a business. Today we've found out who the customers are.

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Billionaires who don't pay taxes give tens of millions of pounds to the racist right while newspapers owned by billionaires who don't pay taxes smear the politicians who challenge them. Because they want to ensure 'a fair fight and a level playing field', apparently.

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Reform UK is a racist party that just doesn't like black or brown people. It really is as simple as that.

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Taxpayers foot the £2,700 a month rent on Kemi Badenoch's six-bedroom farmhouse in Essex. Then she goes on telly and argues that taxpayers shouldn't subsidise other people's rent.

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King Charles doesn't seem to have as much affection for Prince Harry as fathers typically have for their sons