Like zombies, eurozone states are lurching towards their next financial emergency
A slow-burning crisis in which insolvent banks prop up insolvent businesses is a dangerous – and very real – possibility.
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Is Mick Lynch working class?
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Abolishing the pensions lifetime allowance only benefits the richest few
The measure is using a “sledgehammer to crack a nut”, targeting the richest few while the rest of the economy…
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Why Jeremy Hunt’s Budget welfare reforms won’t work
The Chancellor announced the biggest benefit changes in a decade. But they may only make life harder for Brits who…
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A boring Budget is a dangerous Budget
Jeremy Hunt’s plan for steady growth is riddled with missed opportunities that will have long-term implications for the economy.
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Jeremy Hunt is too late
The Budget offered a policy blitz – but voters will feel few benefits in time for the next election.
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HS2 and the moral problem of Nimbyism
We need to start calling out Nimbyism for what it is: a miserly system of privileging one group over another.
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