Is our multicultural society a myth? Across swaths of the country, it barely exists. Yet many migrant workers and people from ethnic-minority backgrounds are moving into rural areas. Will this intensify latent racism or disarm it? Janet Bush reports from Devon
If hedge funds were a country, it would be the eighth-biggest on the planet. They can sink whole economies, and have the potential to crash the entire global financial system. Yet they are beyond regulation. We should be very afraid
2005: Workers' rebellion - Employers, abetted by the government, have made work so unpleasant and unattractive that millions have started to "casualise" themselves. Janet Bush reports
The US dollar has long been the currency of the oil industry. But members of Opec are contemplating ditching greenbacks. The results could be catastrophic for the American economy, reports Janet Bush
Hailed as the Emile Zola of our time, he has burst from academic obscurity to become Bush's greatest critic and a hero of the left by. Paul Krugman profiled by Janet Bush