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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Corbyn needed to challenge neoliberalism and propose a new post-Keynesian approach

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Maya Goodfellow
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Adam Barnett
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Gülüs Egilmez
4 July, 2016

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Carl Packman
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1 July, 2016

As well as responding to the shock of Brexit, our economic policy must begin to repair the country

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