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  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Martin Kettle

    The consensus has long been that the 2025 spending review would be a defining moment for Keir Starmer’s government. For once, the consensus proved spot-on. The government’s main priorities were set out on Wednesday in a blizzard of Commons announcements from Rachel Reeves, some economically substantive, others more for show. The upshot is that the shape of the British state, as Labour intends it, is now decided until the eve of the next election.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Martin Kettle

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  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Martin Kettle

    Atop its elegant Leicestershire hill, the operatic foundations of the Nevill Holt festival feel more secure right now than those of the beleaguered state funded companies down in the cities. The stable courtyard at Nevill Holt was converted into a comfortable 400-seat opera house seven years ago, and now this year’s festival also offers the first fruits of a tie-up with Leeds-based Opera North, who will take a new production south for the coming five years.

  • 3 weeks ago | msn.com | Martin Kettle

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  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Martin Kettle

    Defence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the Sussexes’ lifestyle brand relaunches these days. Labour’s strategic defence review this week comes less than two years after the Conservatives’ hardly less detailed defence white paper in July 2023, which in turn was a “refresh” of Boris Johnson’s ambitious integrated review of defence and foreign policy of March 2021.

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Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle @martinkettle
16 May 24

I notice that @Keir_Starmer said today that only three Labour leaders - Attlee, Wilson and Blair - had taken the party from opposition to government. As usual, Ramsay MacDonald has been written out of the Labour story.

Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle @martinkettle
8 Nov 23

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Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle @martinkettle
2 Nov 23

The Covid inquiry has exposed more than just a few bad apples – the whole system is rotten | Martin Kettle https://t.co/mo6KzwEQ9F