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Is the UK chancellor’s new commitment to infrastructure undermined by a reliance on China?
Lefty: John McDonnell.
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How Labour’s ‘radical’ shadow chancellor might deal with another down-cycle, Brexit, immigration and an energy crunch.
Challenging the status quo.
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Corbyn’s platform, by supporting ordinary people, is in many ways highly pro-business.
Roger Blackwell
The Conservative government is proposing a raft of changes that will make strikes harder to organise.
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We can’t blame them outright for the housing crisis but baby boomers play a role as supply blockers.
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Baby boomers have benefited from a golden age in pensions that that will almost certainly never return.
It’s all your fault!
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It’s become fashionable to blame those born in the post-war baby boom for all today’s economic woes. But this is unfair – and wrong.
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New regulation in the UK shows how payday lending can be done responsibly.
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PFI gives short-term gain for long-term pain for governments and taxpayers.
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Integrating the UK’s expensive and fragmented rail network under public ownership could save hundreds of millions and also provide a better service.
Hands up. Iain Duncan Smith leads the Department for Work and Pensions, which fabricated testimonials in a leaflet praising benefits sanctions.
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Real case studies offer important insights into the varied impact of policy and practice on people’s day to day lives. They shouldn’t be made up.
Left of centre.
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Corbyn has proposed giving the Bank of England a new mandate to invest but the track record of this approach makes it hard to swallow.
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The sharing economy has not, so far, changed the structure of employment and it would require a sudden and unprecedented shift which reversed very recent trends for it to do so.
Masters of tiki-taka.
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Highly inventive and offering myriad routes to goal, tiki taka is the kind of approach to innovation and wealth creation the UK must take.
Undynamic and uncompetitive?
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A look at the reality of Britain’s economy and the benefits that EU membership has brought
George Osborne detailing some of the cuts to come.
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The UK is witnessing its biggest cull of public sector jobs in half a century and hundreds of thousands of workers must make the transition to the private sector.
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Ice cream and BBQ sales may rise when the weather’s good, but it’s mostly at the expense of other, cold weather, items.
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A powerful weapon against inequality that has been largely ignored in the UK is the collectively-owned social wealth fund.
Not just for the workless.
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MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
Logjam: a third runway at Heathrow will up capacity.
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The key consideration for a new airport is ultimately market demand – what do customers want. And airport customers (airlines) want a Heathrow hub.