Osborne may yet fall to earth, but he has already reshaped the state in his own image
As with Thatcher’s privatisations, the Chancellor is confident that his reforms will become part of the common sense of the age.
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Labour backs four-year public sector pay cap
Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie says “difficult decisions have to be made” after Osborne limits pay increases to 1 per cent.
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George Osborne’s Budget is an attack on the young
Don’t vote, don’t get.
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Osborne’s politically deft Budget makes life even harder for Labour
The Chancellor ruthlessly exploited the opposition’s weaknesses and addressed his party’s own.
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George Osborne to slow pace of welfare cuts in another bad cop-steady cop manoeuvre
The Budget will lay out the government’s £12bn welfare cuts programme to take a year longer than first planned.
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Slavoj Žižek on Greece: This is a chance for Europe to awaken
The Greeks are correct: Brussels’ denial that this is an ideological question is ideology at its purest – and symptomatic of our…
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Boris has outflanked Osborne on the living wage and the top tax rate
The Conservative leadership rival’s alternative Budget offers something for the left and the right.
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Meet America’s Dairy Princesses, the pageant winners trying to save the US dairy industry
American dairy farming is in trouble, and the women who are crowned Dairy Princess for their states are doing their…
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