Quickfire The quiet consensus: how Labour and the Tories are converging The Budget confirmed that the two main parties are closer on policy than at any time since 2008. By George Eaton
Encounter “This country doesn’t invest in its own future”: Torsten Bell on why the UK is being hit hardest By George Eaton
Rishi Sunak isn’t a centrist technocrat – he’s a proud Thatcherite The new prime minister represents the same free-market world-view favoured by Liz Truss. By George Eaton
Liz Truss is a morbid symptom of British capitalism’s long crisis The Prime Minister unwittingly posed a question that should haunt her party: what is the point of capitalism if… By George Eaton
Liz Truss wants to govern a country that does not exist The Prime Minister’s ideology blinds her to reality: Britain wants stability, not free-market revolution. By George Eaton
How redistributive was New Labour? Though inequality did not fall under Blair and Brown, child and pensioner poverty were dramatically reduced. By George Eaton
Why Liz Truss can’t be a 21st-century Thatcher It isn’t possible to launch a free-market revolution in an economy still defined by the last one. By George Eaton
Nick Cave’s second coming At 65, the Australian singer-songwriter is more creatively alive than ever before. By George Eaton
Adrienne Buller: “Green capitalism is its own form of denial” The Canadian author discusses her new book The Value of a Whale and why markets won’t save the world. By George Eaton
The Tory leadership contest pits Thatcherism against Reaganism The fiscally conservative Rishi Sunak is borrowing from Margaret Thatcher while the tax-cutting Liz Truss channels Ronald Reagan. By George Eaton