Can cashless technology transform the lives of homeless people?
As the public turns to contactless payments, the cash in their pockets for donations is drying up.
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There are a couple of problems with Labour’s plans for the Bank of England
What do we want? Three per cent! Who do we want to deliver it? The same lot who are doing…
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Jeremy Corbyn’s industrial strategy is not economic nationalism but common sense
In a deglobalising world, Labour’s plan to revive domestic manufacturing is the only sensible course for Britain.
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Why the government’s public sector pay rise is not what it seems
One million workers will get a salary increase – but in reality, it’s just a smaller pay cut.
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A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation
Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system.
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Adam Smith’s rescue from the libertarian right
In his new book Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters, Tory MP Jesse Norman critiques “crony capitalism” – a system…
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The Conservatives are doing pork wrong
It’s not unusual for a government to put winning votes over sensible infrastructure decisions. It is rarer to put a…
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Nigel Lawson: “Globalisation has made it much easier for people to avoid paying tax”
The former Conservative chancellor and Brexiteer remains a proud architect of Thatcherism – but he is less impressed by some of the…
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