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Cuts to local councils are being passed onto domestic violence services – here’s what we need to do to prevent it.
Lost in the fog? How the fraudsters got their morals.
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Corporate wrongdoing is underpinned by a morality that many of us have voted for.
Time to look closer to home.
Immigration has been wrongly blamed for the growing pressure on Britain’s public services.
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The G7’s limited membership of like-minded countries gives it significant power to bring about meaningful economic growth.
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Cities don’t have much control over national policies – but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing they can do.
Minding the tax gap.
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The Panama papers show how hard it is to keep on top of tax collection, but outsourcing to the private sector would bring problems of its own.
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Cyprus is successfully exiting its bailout at the end of March after three years.
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On welfare reform, it’s a question of listen and learn.
George Osborne has a tough job on his hands.
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As the UK government delivers its spending plans for the next five years, here’s why a number of controversial cuts are on the cards.
Pushing our luck. Without a food policy, Britain is struggling.
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Britain is more worried about being a food trader than building a system that properly feeds its people.
Under scrutiny.
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We often get the facts wrong, but how we feel about austerity has serious consequences for the political class.
Right of centre.
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Until this week’s tax credits debacle, the Conservatives have performed exquisitely the role of the reasonable and pragmatic English party that swears by its faith in “whatever works”. So far, under the…
Protestors took to the streets in Brussels to send a message.
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New research shows texting combined with rising levels of youth unemployment were primary drivers of the unrest that has unsettled Europe.
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Across Europe, there has been a rise in the number of women earning the most in their family.
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Like Greece and Spain, Portugal endured a bailout and austerity. But it has not seen the rise of a Syriza or Podemos equivalent.
Strange bedfellows: UUP leader Mike Nesbitt (centre left) and DUP leader Peter Robinson (centre right) outside Stormont.
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Stormont’s parties refuse to conduct politics in any mode besides crisis mode.
Who needs clubs when you can dance in the street?
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The real age of the rave was the early 90s, when politics and partying combined to extraordinary result. And once again we find ourselves in hard times …
Taking the mic. Varoufakis.
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Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
Times are tough – for some more than others.
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The harshest cuts have yet to happen, but the bite is already being felt.
Front doors closed as indefinite strike continues.
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The debate about museums as businesses is in danger of trumping defences of museums and galleries as public institutions.