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Policies to tackle climate change will make it more expensive not to act.
Candy crush?
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There are mounting calls to dismember the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, but most people seem to have overlooked the biggest threat of all.
Is this what anyone voted for?
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The former Chancellor was no economist, but he was better at politics than Theresa May.
The UK has had eight years of cuts to public services.
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Are the Conservatives admitting that austerity hasn’t worked?
Hyper-efficient.
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There are different measures of productivity and the nature of the UK’s problem depends on which one we are looking at.
No time for head scratching.
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There was token investment in driverless cars, but this was a pitiful budget by a rudderless government.
Academics put Hammond in the spotlight.
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November 22, 2017
Chris Jones , Aston University ; Donald Hirsch , Loughborough University ; Ed Turner , Aston University ; Geoff J Rodgers , Brunel University London ; Gwilym Pryce , University of Sheffield ; Jill Rubery , University of Manchester ; Linda Bauld , University of Stirling ; Michael Kitson , Cambridge Judge Business School ; Paul Nieuwenhuis , Cardiff University , and Peter Bloom , The Open University
Academics deliver their verdict on Philip Hammond.
Is chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond, betting on tech utopia with plans to see autonomous vehicles on UK roads by 2021?
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It’s going to be difficult for UK government-backed autonomous vehicle projects to compete with Silicon Valley – unless they have something neat under the bonnet.
On the edge.
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Unemployment levels are low, but many people are being pushed into inadequately paid jobs by a punitive benefit system and lack of choice.
South African President Jacob Zuma. Mounting allegations of corruption at home are having international repercussions.
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There are disturbing questions around the complicity - witting or unwitting - of UK global financial institutions in the transnational network set up by President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family.
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Could the ‘magic money tree’ have been right under our nose this whole time?
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Liam Fox insists on keeping faith with the referendum decision. But that is preventing ministers from adapting to an evolving situation.
Jack’s back.
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Scotland’s former first minister on Brexit, Scotland and the need for a new generation of visionaries.
All public sector workers have a 1% pay rise cap.
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A deep dive into public sector earnings data since 2005 and how it compares to private sector pay.
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Philip Hammond’s Mansion House speech was long on coded warnings, and short on optimism.
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Uproar from businesses in the South East disguises a complex picture with the financial crisis at its heart.
All smiles at 11 Downing Street.
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March 8, 2017
Michael Kitson , Cambridge Judge Business School ; Andrew Gunn , University of Leeds ; Catherine Needham , University of Birmingham ; Donald Hirsch , Loughborough University ; Geraint Johnes , Lancaster University ; Ian Greenwood , University of Leeds ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Kevin Farnsworth , University of York ; Michael Devereux , University of Oxford , and Simon Wren-Lewis , University of Oxford
Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
Getting his sums right?
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Recent history shows us why we should take the latest healthy forecasts with a pinch of salt.
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The Conservatives may be willing to sacrifice what’s left of the UK’s beleaguered social model to maintain the City’s global status.
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A zero rate for business could actually be a progressive move and would reflect the anti-bureaucratic spirit of Brexit.