The Reeves doctrine: Labour’s plan for power
She is ready to be Britain’s first female chancellor. But will Rachel Reeves’ caution stifle her creativity?
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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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The age of greedflation
How corporate profiteering is making us poorer.
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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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The scourge of greedflation
A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
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Chancellor’s adviser says Tories and Labour “lack boldness” on spending
Andy Haldane would “press pause” on interest rates and stop telling workers not to demand pay rises.
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Sick Britain: where have all the workers gone?
An unwell, understaffed country has emerged from the era of Covid-19.
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Europe’s centrist parties let industry rot and society fragment. Now they’re being punished for it
In Italy, France, Germany and Britain, the flight of voters to the political extremes can be mapped on to neglected…
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