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This week has not been the first week in which the Prime Minister has had reasons to be grateful to Jeremy Corbyn. In the past, the cause for gratitude was Jeremy Corbyn’s inability to offer viable opposition to the government, whether in the House…

This has been another week of frenzied activity and frenzied reporting. It feels like many of us are feeling a little punch drunk by the breadth of the issues which are at large and the twists and turns in what is being or has been done in the face…

As readers of this progression of pieces may recall, the genesis of each week’s article takes place whilst I tramp the countryside with the dog at 6 o’clock in the morning. Six o’clock in the morning is now dark and increasingly cold but, aside of…

The process of ageing has its subtleties. One of them is its habit of, without warning and with an irresistible force, creating a thought process that leads to you utter phrases which you were determined never to utter. This happened to me this week…