Cabinet audit: What does Sajid Javid at the Treasury mean for policy?
So far optimism has been the watchword of Boris Johnson’s time in office, and no department will be quite as…
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Cabinet audit: What does the appointment of Robert Jenrick as Housing Secretary mean for policy?
This is a big promotion for the young Remainer (the first cabinet minister ever to be born in the Eighties)…
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Why it’s time for British banknotes to recognise ethnic minorities
The Bank of England’s failure to acknowledge BAME figures sends a damaging message.
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To escape the next recession, we need to move beyond boom and bust
On 14 July the Resolution Foundation released a report warning that the UK is on the cusp of another recession.…
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Making banking boring again: the decline of Deutsche Bank
There once was a time when Deutsche Bank’s central purpose was to expand its investment banking operations to compete with…
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The return of disaster capitalism
Almost ten years after the introduction of austerity, Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, visited the UK.…
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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are shredding their own political inheritances
Imagine for a moment that you’ve just got a new job as the new Prime Minister’s director of strategy, or…
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How the libertarian ghost of Ayn Rand haunts the economic policies of the Tory candidates
In 1979, a Conservative government was elected on a transformative policy platform. Margaret Thatcher promised to cut taxes, shrink the…
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