The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape | Matthew d’Ancona | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/30/tories-identity-crisis-party-conference

Mommy dearest: a psychiatrist puts Donald Trump on the couch | US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/29/trump-on-the-couch-justin-frank

Greening the economy — Tax Research UK

This letter from my Green New Deal colleague Coilin Hines was in the Observer today: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In Britain’s chaotic rail system…

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When detail matters — Stumbling and Mumbling

Chris Giles says that in predicting that a no-deal Brexit will cause house prices to fall 35%, Mark Carney’s has fallen “into the trap of giving his audience precise numbers at a time they are neither knowable nor helpful.” This poses the question: when is precision and detail useful, and when not? In this case,…

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Labour has caught the mood of the times. Now it needs new ideas to remake capitalism | Will Hutton | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/30/labour-has-caught-mood-of-times-needs-new-ideas-to-remake-capitalism

Conference will reveal whether the Tories still have the recipe for survival | Andrew Rawnsley | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/30/tories-recipe-for-survival-birmingham-party-conference

Patrick Kielty absolutely schools Boris Johnson on Brexit and Northern Ireland in epic late night Twitter takedown – Mirror Online

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/patrick-kielty-schools-boris-johnson-13328777