Why China’s Evergrande debt crisis is the tip of an iceberg
The woes of the world’s most heavily indebted property developer could soon mean problems for Xi Jinping, China’s economy and…
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Why Labour should break the mould and promise to cut taxes
Pay rises for the many and tax rises for the few could be a winning message for the party.
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The Tories’ regressive social care plan gives Labour the space for a radical alternative
As the Tories ape New Labour by taxing work rather than wealth, Keir Starmer’s party must show that it understands…
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The big problem with the SNP’s plan to measure Scotland’s success by “wellbeing”
Measuring a country’s GDP doesn’t give the whole story, but whichever metric you use, the SNP’s record falls short.
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Is the SNP bold enough to tackle the scourge of Scottish poverty?
The death rate in Scotland’s most deprived areas in 2020 was almost double that in the least deprived areas. What…
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How the freak economics of the Thatcher years warped the boomers’ view on tax and house prices
Those who lived through the oil boom have a distorted sense of today’s economic trends. But they’re the ones driving…
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Boris Johnson is exploiting the public’s misunderstanding of National Insurance
Until NI is recognised as a tax, politicians will continue to raid the pay packets of the poorest to fund…
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Boris Johnson’s government lacks the necessary imagination to reform social care
Ministers want to fix social care, but it comes with a sign reading: “Do not touch”.
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