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• Vote momentum favours Scottish separatists

  11-03-2017 19:12
  A spasm of English nationalism makes the case to demand another say on independence
  
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• Vote momentum favours Scottish nationalists

  11-03-2017 19:12
  A spasm of English nationalism makes the case for separatists to demand their say
  
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• Don’t bet against Scotland voting twice to remain in the UK

  11-03-2017 19:12
  Labour’s meltdown would leave a pro-union campaign floundering post-Brexit
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Says Another Scottish Independence Referendum Would Be 'Absolutely Fine'

  11-03-2017 18:53
  
  Jeremy Corbyn said it would be “absolutely fine” for another vote to be held on Scottish independence.
  Corbyn said he did not think that Westminster should seek to block another referendum if Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insists on holding one, the Press Association reported.
  His comments come amid persistent speculation that Sturgeon is about to demand a Section 30 order from Westminster, allowing a legally binding vote on Scotland’s place in the UK to be held.She h
  
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• Owen Jones Becomes Latest To Quit Social Media

  11-03-2017 18:22
  
  Owen Jones has said he is quitting social media because it is “completely and utterly depressing”.
  The journalist revealed he has been sent torture and death threats, among other abuse, online, and said that he felt that social media was no longer a useful platform for debate.
  In a Facebook post, he said that he would only use Facebook and Twitter to share stories, videos and events.He said: “On a daily basis I have angry strangers yelling at me, on the one hand, that I’m
  
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• Scottish independence: Jeremy Corbyn says indyref2 'absolutely fine'

  11-03-2017 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader says it is not his party's job to prevent people from holding another referendum.
  
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• Willie Rennie sets out 'new case for the UK'

  11-03-2017 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Willie Rennie sets out what he says will be the "new case for the United Kingdom" as he pledges to fight to keep Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU.
  
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• Unlimited fines for bulk buying ticket touts

  11-03-2017 16:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government seeks to make "bots" illegal as fans face huge secondary ticketing mark-ups.
  
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• Philip Hammond gave us a budget for tax avoiders and giant firms

  11-03-2017 15:22
  
  There is nothing progressive about cutting taxes for companies and the very wealthiest while hitting the self-employedThis week’s budget revealed the government’s true priorities. It’s not about supporting workers or small businesses. It’s a government for tax avoiders and giant corporations. Phillip Hammond was boasting about the continuing cuts to taxes for corporations and the super-rich, now totalling £70bn over the next few years, even as he hammered the self-e
  
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• Norman Lamont Calls Philip Hammond's Tax Hike A 'Rookie Mistake'

  11-03-2017 14:51
  
  Former Tory chancellor Norman Lamont has joined the ranks of those criticising Philip Hammond’s tax hike for the self-employed.
  The current chancellor announced the rise in National Insurance Contributions in Wednesday’s Budget.
  But Lamont said that he feared that Hammond’s announcement, which breaks a Conservative election manifesto pledge, was a “rookie error”.Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said: “Election pledges should not be lightly given &n
  
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• TrumpWatch: 5 Disturbing Things From The World Of President Trump This Week

  11-03-2017 13:04
  
  Any thoughts that Donald Trump’s administration was losing its entertainment value were swiftly put to bed this week as Sean Spicer proved he’s more than a match for Melissa McCarthy’s parody version of himself.
  The White House Press Secretary held a string of botched briefings during which he U-turned, inappropriately chortled and passionately gestured towards stationery in a manner that had journalists struggling to contain their mirth.
  And there were plenty of other dev
  
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• 'Rookie error': former chancellor criticises Hammond's NICs plan

  11-03-2017 11:56
  
  Norman Lamont says lower NICs are only way to boost entrepreneurship while Tory rebellion emerges over ‘death tax’ plansPhilip Hammond has been accused of making a “rookie error” over his plans to raise national insurance contributions from self-employed workers, as the budget backlash from Conservative ranks continues. There was intense backbench anger over plans to raise NICs in the face of a 2015 manifesto pledge that appeared to rule out the move in the wake of the sp
  
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• UK Politicians Call 'Fake News' On Stories They Don't Like, Aping Donald Trump

  11-03-2017 11:07
  
  British politicians aping Donald Trump by condemning established media as “fake news” is a “dangerous” trend that needs to be challenged, the MP leading an inquiry into the phenomena has told The Huffington Post UK.
  Coined last year following the US election to describe 100% fabricated ‘news’ widely shared on social media, the phrase has since been deployed by the US President to damn critical media.
  The term quickly crossed the Atlantic, taking root on socia
  
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• Budget 2017: Self-employed 'tax raid' a 'rookie error'

  11-03-2017 10:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An election pledge not to increase taxes was "unwise in the extreme", says ex-chancellor Lord Lamont.
  
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• The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention?

  11-03-2017 09:00
  
  A decade haunted by mass poverty, violent extremism and world war gives us one crucial advantage: the chance to learn the era’s lessons and avoid its mistakes
  Even to mention the 1930s is to evoke the period when human civilisation entered its darkest, bloodiest chapter. No case needs to be argued; just to name the decade is enough. It is a byword for mass poverty, violent extremism and the gathering storm of world war. “The 1930s” is not so much a label for a period of time th
  
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• OmNICshambles: how it all went wrong for 'spreadsheet Phil' Hammond | Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott

  11-03-2017 08:00
  
  Chancellor’s allies say tax rise for self-employed makes system fairer but it was the politics, not economics, that matteredPhilip Hammond began this week as “spreadsheet Phil” – the steady-as-she-goes chancellor ready to steer HMS Britain safely through Brexit – and ended it as the author of the “omNICshambles”.Colleagues who know him well said it was precisely because he likes to dive into the numbers that he had taken such a pasting in the press for w
  
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