The left should champion universal basic services, not UBI
Free public transport, higher education and social care is far more radical than free money.
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Britain is not the sick man of Europe – that accolade goes to Germany
To survive in a modern, digital world, the German economy requires not a green transition but a full-scale revolution.
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The sovereign individual in Downing Street
In 1997 a business book predicted tech disruption, the alt-right and the rise of the super-rich. Now, in Rishi Sunak,…
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Welcome to the cost-of-adaptation crisis
Climate change is disrupting the food systems we rely on – and the free market offers no solutions.
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The age of greedflation
How corporate profiteering is making us poorer.
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Rebuilding industry is a mistake. The West should focus on economic alliances instead
Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is laudable, but decades of decline cannot be reversed in a single presidential term.
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We’re getting poorer at a slightly slower rate than last month
Inflation has fallen to 8.7 per cent, but prices – especially food – are still rising dangerously.
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No one should be forced to go without broadband in modern Britain
The cancellation of broadband by a million people is another sign of the UK’s economic and social decline.
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