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The coalition’s policies are as much to blame as UKIP in creating the perception that the UK is hostile to overseas students.
Payday lenders: tougher rules and price caps are welcome. But more is needed
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Supermarket cosmetic standards are wasting hundreds of thousands of tonnes of produce
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Pakistan’s blasphemy law is a relentless guillotine for minorities
The number of Pakistanis being sentenced or killed for blaspheming against the accepted strain of Sunni Islam is on the rise.
Cameron is playing with fire on the EU
Cameron’s European policy could signal the end of the UK as we know it.
Ed Miliband at the CBI: why we still need a responsible capitalism
The coalition has lost all interest in any sort of economic rebalancing in its dash for short-term growth.
Capitalism really did win when the wall fell
But the left shouldn’t despair.
Austerity and the misspent QE trillions
Austerity has enriched multinational companies and the owners of financial and real assets, while grinding down the value of earned income, pensions and benefits.
Honour British war dead with peace not war
The best way to honour those who died is to build a better world than the one which came before it.
EU Commission slaps down George Osborne over rebate claim
Chancellor George Osborne’s has been slapped down by his EU counterparts and by the Financial Times over his claim to have halved the UK’s £1.7bn EU budget surcharge.