Politics: Economy
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An inevitable crisis
- By James Buchan
- 18 December
Viewed from a distance, the events of 2008 will be seen as a particularly dramatic example of the age-old cycle of famine and feast. James Buchan reflects on a financial crisis of unprecedented size and complexity
''We've had to let six staff go this Christmas . . . people with families and mortgages''
- By Fran Abrams
- 18 December
Families all over Britain are bracing themselves for hard times. For some, they have already started. Fran Abrams reports from Leek in Staffordshire
A thinker for our times
- By Robert Skidelsky
- 18 December
Global leaders are once again reminding themselves of the insights of the Cambridge academic who helped relaunch the world economy after the Second World War. He deserves to ride again, writes his biographer Robert Skidelsky
Politics is broken
- By Nick Clegg
- 16 December
People in this country are governed by processes that feel alien to their lives; by the puerile and archaic pantomime that so often dictates the Commons; by a system that keeps power hoarded in Whitehall.
Mystic Mart
- By Martin Bright
- 15 December
I've just been re-reading my predications for 2008. How do you think I did?
Brown: hero or humourless steamroller?
- By Paul Evans
- 12 December
The best of the politics blogs with, this week, no small amount of amusement about Gordon Brown's 'saving the world' gaffe...
Feature
Queen's Elastoplast dress
A Credit Crunch is just some kind of half-arsed pudding. We’re going to get through it by enjoying generosity and sharing simple pleasures, just like the good old Queen said
More in economy
Community chest
- By Liana Wood
- 11 December 2008
The global soul
- By Jasper Rees
- 11 December 2008
Banking on Sharia
- By Mehdi Hasan
- 11 December 2008
Better banking?
- By Diane Coyle
- 11 December 2008
The wars of too many words
- By Brian Cathcart
- 11 December 2008
New best friends
- By Richard Reeves
- 11 December 2008
Dinner in New York with George Soros
- By Mark Leonard
- 04 December 2008
