Cash terms is such a pointless comparison given inflation. Adjust for inflation and both Lamont and both Healey figures will be much larger than today’s.

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The Budget in 5 points 1. Borrowing increase (quite large) 2. Spending increase (small) 3. Capital spending increase (quite small) 4. Tax increase (large) 5. Fiscal headroom (small)

This is a UK Budget that's looking ahead to the 2026 Holyrood election. £3.4 billion more for the Scottish Government - expect that figure to be repeated by Labour at FMQs for the next 12 months.

I don’t think progress can go backwards. It’s not progress if it’s going backwards is it? Is it regress?

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Young people told to cancel their Netflix subscription’s so poor desperate pensioners like Julie and John don’t have to sell one of their 60 properties.

Vampiric politics open.substack.com/pub/politicaly…

Putting the story in history open.substack.com/pub/politicaly…

Erm. There will be another general election. In 2028 or 2029 probably. Next.

It's Substack day for me. I couldn't resist this awful intersection of gender and politics. Bin Gregg open.substack.com/pub/politicaly…

The water has been off since this morning. I want to know when it’s coming back on. About 9 hours after contacting Thames Water 💧 I get this. Sometimes no comms is better than bad comms.

GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, analysis shows theguardian.com/media/2024/dec…

Done a new Substack- Women have further to fall than ever before open.substack.com/pub/politicaly…

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We're watching the on-video confession of the Trump-Russia scandal.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Men. #ovaloffice

Appeasement leads to wars. Corporal JD Vance should read his history and do his homework. He has never visited Ukraine and was wrong on his facts at Munich. 2/2

Trump and Zelenskyy were supposed to do a press conference side by side. That has been cancelled and Fox News is reporting that Trump told Zelenskyy to leave the White House after the episode in the Oval Office. Putin and the Kremlin will be utterly delighted.