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Going nowhere fast

  • 22 November 2007
  • 3 comments

Not only has the government presided over the biggest financial bailout in Britain's history, it has sought to minimise its importance

No one can yet say how bad it is

  • 08 November 2007
  • 5 comments

The most worrying aspect of all this is how little the politicians and regulators knew of what was going on in the world of the major banks

Discs, downloads and democracy

  • 25 October 2007

Saying that no one pays for music anymore ignores that 95% of it is in the hands of the big four record companies

Watch that squeeze ahead

  • 04 October 2007

A significant tax rise will be required, to fund even the modest increases in government spending projected, if the public finances are not to go awry

On cross-dressing chancellors

  • 27 September 2007
  • 1 comment

The Tories are "doing a Brown" - pledging to keep within Darling's spending controls rather than promising deep-seated change

A failure of regulation

  • 20 September 2007
  • 2 comments

There is a bank crisis in Britain every decade - but in the case of Northern Rock, Gordon Brown's actions as chancellor are coming back to haunt him

The fly-and-buy disaster

  • 13 September 2007

The ghastly state of London's airports, particularly Heathrow, is having an impact on the economy. The answer is to get tough with BAA

The hard facts about pay

  • 06 September 2007

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown has left himself little choice but to stand firm in the face of growing public sector discontent

Hypocrisy at the highest level

  • 30 August 2007

Untrammelled capitalism has been allowed to set its own rules for far too long - and by a Labour Chancellor, who promised to put "stability" first

Yes, there's every reason to worry

  • 23 August 2007
  • 1 comment

By the standards of the second half of the 20th century, we are in the midst of a panic as serious as any which preceded it

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Cloud control

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Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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