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Business

Oil prices mean Starmer must raise tax or face recession

The Iran war is a tax hike imposed by Donald Trump on consumers across the planet

Photo of Oil prices mean Starmer must raise tax or face recession

The Mecca of the lanyard class

The Weekend Report

The Mecca of the lanyard class

Will Dunn

Was the Chancellor’s Spring Statement dead on arrival?

Ethan Croft

The housing market is calcifying

Kane Emerson

Revealed: Thames Water’s environmental and financial disaster

Will Dunn

Nigel Farage's empty economic strategy

Nigel Farage’s empty economic strategy

Andrew O’Brien

Britain is getting poorer, and angrier

James Meadway

The big read

The QE theory of everything

The QE theory of everything

How the $30 trillion quantitative easing experiment reshaped our world – from Brexit to the dominance of Big Tech.

By Will Dunn

Economics

Rachel Reeves is pretending everything is absolutely fine

Rachel Reeves is pretending everything is absolutely fine

Will Dunn

What Jeffrey Epstein knew about money

What Jeffrey Epstein knew about money

Will Dunn

Kenneth Rogoff on the decline of the dollar

The Weekend Interview

Kenneth Rogoff on the decline of the dollar

Will Dunn

Trump is preparing to unleash inflation on his own voters

International Politics

Trump is preparing to unleash inflation on his own voters

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Investment

The “Big North-West Upgrade” begins

Partner content

The “Big North-West Upgrade” begins

Louise Beardmore

Why Labour’s growth plan must empower UK retail investors

Partner content

Why Labour’s growth plan must empower UK retail investors

Rupert Osborne

An investment in jobs, skills, and industrial capacity

Partner content

An investment in jobs, skills, and industrial capacity

Lord Hutton of Furness

Energy storage must not be overlooked on the road to net zero

Partner content

Energy storage must not be overlooked on the road to net zero

Chris O'Shea

Finance

The housing market has already crashed

The housing market has already crashed

Will Dunn

Rachel Reeves has a choice

Rachel Reeves has a choice

James Meadway

Cold-water swimming with Canary Wharf bankers

The Weekend Report

Cold-water swimming with Canary Wharf bankers

Lotte Brundle

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

Peter Geoghegan and May Bulman

Work

You should be cheating on your job

Sam Kahn

The great lie about the British welfare state

Andrew O’Brien

The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics

The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics

Anoosh Chakelian

Would anyone work if they didn’t have to?

Rachel Cunliffe

Britain’s youth unemployment epidemic

Ella Dorn

The truth about junior doctors’ pay

The truth about junior doctors’ pay

Will Dunn