Is Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s new chief economist, an “outrageously bad appointment”?
The 53-year-old white man was appointed despite the bank spending £43,000 on diversity consultants.
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Leader: Britain isn’t working
The labour shortage crisis shows why the UK must end the race to the bottom on pay and conditions.
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Will anything ever stop the madness of the British housing market?
In the last year, the average house has earned more than the average worker – and the government is to blame.
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Why the UK government is not facing a debt crisis
Borrowing may have soared, but historically low debt interest payments mean there is no need for austerity.
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Why a China-centered future is still uncertain
In privileging political control over market freedom, the new superpower risks its own rise.
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Liz Truss’s trade deals will destroy British farming as we know it
Britain’s farming communities face being undercut by the huge corporations that dominate Australian and New Zealand agriculture.
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China in 1983: a miracle waiting to happen?
In its first report on China under Communism, the World Bank presciently recognised the potential for “a tremendous increase in…
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Why cutting Universal Credit is even worse than you think
The £1,000-a-year cut would increase child poverty, damage economic growth and intensify regional inequality.
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