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So Andy Burnham finally stood up at a Labour conference and said Brexit has done more harm than good, which these days is 'brave' even though it's stating the obvious? The PM finally says it out loud To

So my final build block - intervals, easy, Park Run (Temp +) and easy... Tuesday's intervals.. Still on the Octopus sessions, last one of these! Thursday's Easy.... Just nice and easy! Saturday's Park

I was reading in The Week about the latest travel 'craze', people flying abroad for the day, wandering round a city for a few hours and then flying home again the same night. No hotel, no suitcase, just

Andy Burnham has committed Labour to changing the voting system in its next manifesto, along with a shiny new national commission to look at the options. But hardly anyone votes on the basis of electoral

I was reading in The Week about a piece by Ruchir Sharma in the FT which asks why the US economy is flying and yet Trump's lot look set to get hammered in the midterms next month. Growth hit nearly 4%

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's latest column in the Times has four horsemen galloping in together: the wars in Iran and Ukraine; the tightly interlinked markets for oil, gas and grain; an El Niño building in

I was reading in The Week that the humble minivan is making a comeback in America, and maybe this is really a story about people finally noticing they've been had. For years the minivan has been the least

Dominic Lawson, writing in the Telegraph, thinks taming the welfare bill will be Andy Burnham's toughest challenge. According to this figures 53% of us live in households that receive more from the state

Chris Giles has some cheerful news in the FT: Britain is apparently far less useless than we thought. For fifteen years economists have scratched their heads over why UK productivity growth collapsed,

The government is buying another steelworks. Having already taken British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces into public ownership this summer, it's now working towards acquiring Speciality Steel UK, the

Happy HPUD everyone, into October and it's usually getting cold, but not this year! I just added another 1K Hive to the pot, and this month I've added around another 6K, not quite up to my usual standards,

I had mostly some slow runs over the last week, had a slight niggle in the old left thigh so took it easy until today, when I felt fine, thigh fine! Last Tuesday ... A nice gentle around the town in Hereford,

Politics in the rich world, says the Economist's Schumpeter columnist, is mostly about promising to make the economy look like it did decades ago. Now Silicon Valley is at it too. Elon Musk's Tesla Diner

David Smith in The Sunday Times makes a neat point about Chancellor John Healey's first Budget. The fiscal rules he inherited from Rachel Reeves have got even tighter thanks to rising borrowing costs,

The Week's business pages recently asked whether Britain can stop the rot, as yet another batch of UK companies gets snapped up by overseas buyers. The emotional hook is Colman's mustard, a quintessentially

Peter Apps's latest argument, summarised in The Week, is that the government needs to rein in the spread of houses in multiple occupation. The gist is that investment firms are hoovering up cheap houses

Robert Colvile has written one of those columns in the Sunday Times that's designed to make people who care about their town centres slightly cross. His argument is that the high street of old is doomed,

The FT's Lex column argues that Shein should be understood as a social media company rather than a retailer — a gamified engine that keeps you scrolling and occasionally sells you a jacket, closer in spirit

Bringing buses under public control is a governance reform. What ails the bus network is a revenue problem. The two are related, but they are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how you end

So one of tonight's stories involved a puppet book and my thoughts strayed back idley to Rod Hull... I in fact found myself on the phone asking questions about Rod Hull... There as a certain question I