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The crisis in Egypt is in no one’s interest
The UK government should make any further economic and military support to Egypt conditional on the return to democracy.
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Invest in UK cities to stop this two-speed economy
As the UK continues to prioritise the performance of the capital city ahead of any other factor, it squanders the potential of a third of the nation.
Did we just feel the warning tremors of the next financial crash?
Last week, tremors that had been rumbling through the financial markets since the turn of the year came to the surface.
UK GDP up 0.7 per cent
UK GDP grew by 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the latest quarterly national accounts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Consumer debt, another house price boom – what sort of recovery is this?
The chancellor has given up on any rebalancing of the economy and has fallen back on what can only lead, further down the line, to another crash.
The Illiberal Democrats
Sadly, an attempt to challenge lazy and dangerous anti-Muslim stereotypes has ended up reinforcing them.
We need ambitious pension reform – and collective’s the way to do it
With less than half of the population saving enough for a decent income in retirement, we’ve got a living standards crisis on the cards.
Tackling inequality is not palatable to parts of the UK’s business community
Away from the rarefied atmosphere of Davos, the reality of tackling inequality is not at all palatable to elements of the UK’s business community.
How ‘insignificant’ really is 50p tax revenue?
So did the 50p rate of tax – introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 – really raise a “statistically insignificant” sum, as the Independent’s editorial put it?