International Women's Day: we have made great strides but there's a long way...
Despite much to celebrate, women continue to be hit hardest by financial crisesAs we approach International Women’s Day– now in its 25th year – there’s a lot to celebrate: women’s rights have risen up...
View ArticleWomen in the richest areas enjoy two decades more of healthy life than their...
A third of the population will not reach 60 in good health, new figures reveal. And it’s income, not lifestyle, to blameNew statistics from the ONS have revealed that women in the most deprived areas...
View ArticleSelling off Britain is not a sign of strength, but profound weakness
The country is in the middle of a huge ownership crisis. Let us at least start talking about itThe British are giving up on owning things. For a generation there has been an extraordinary selling-off...
View ArticleCan hipsters save the world?
It’s easy to mock the beards, tattoos and fixed-wheel bicycles of east London, but its ‘flat white economy’ is here to stay. Ed Cumming on the revolution that’s changing BritainCereal Killer is a café...
View ArticleA hundred-year loan? Now that’s a long-term economic plan
Lloyd George’s war loan is due to be paid off on Monday. If only those currently in charge of the national finances could think so far aheadPolicymakers in Britain and the eurozone should take note of...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on the Office for Budget Responsibility: numbers up |...
Notionally independent fiscal forecasts build in Treasury assumptions about public spending, which are worthy of the Enron school of accountingAfter 58 months of blood, toil, tears and cuts, two months...
View ArticleSix taboos that baby boomers avoid thinking about
With an election looming, UK politicians are once again courting the all-important over-55s with income-, pension- and estate-friendly policies Kevin Spacey, looking greyer and paunchier as President...
View ArticleTreasury 'not ready for next financial crisis'
Tory chairman of Commons committee says we still have financial institutions that are ‘too big to fail’ and they may also be too big to save next timeThe Treasury is not doing enough to prepare for the...
View ArticleEd Balls' speech on Tory spending cuts: Politics Live blog
Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Ed Balls’ speech on Tory spending cuts and David Cameron’s speech on education and family10.14am GMTBalls says the...
View ArticleEd Balls: Tory spending plans could lead to NHS charging
Shadow chancellor says ‘extreme’ cuts implied are almost impossible and the Tories would have to slash health spending, raise VAT or charge for the NHSThe Conservatives may have to start charging for...
View ArticleLiberal Democrat members 'left in the dark' about party's spending plans
Liberal Reform group says ‘it’s difficult to see how tax and spending plans can be funded without basic income tax rate or VAT going up’A leading Liberal Democrat grassroots group has said that members...
View ArticleEd Balls insists Labour will work to reduce deficit - video
Ed Balls says Labour must show it can make difficult decisions if it is to be voted in at the upcoming general election. The shadow chancellor describes how labour will cap child benefit rises at 1%...
View ArticleTeachers' pay rise being blocked by Tories, say Lib Dems
Liberal Democrat sources say the Conservatives are refusing to accept recommendations for the main rates of pay for teachersThe Conservatives are blocking a pay rise for teachers, according to the...
View ArticleYoung and low-paid workers in UK 'most vulnerable to interest rate rise'
Report says young adults suffered 36% drop in savings since 2005 while top 20% of earners ‘more financially secure today than going into the downturn’Britain’s younger workers have few funds in the...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs: ‘By separating nature from economics, we have walked blindly...
Economic policy must be combined with climate and technology if we are to stand any chance of saving ourselves, argues the prominent American economistRecent news brings yet another example of hubris...
View ArticleCapitalism v the environment | Letters
Alan Rusbridger failed to mention (Why we put the climate on the cover, 7 March) that Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything is subtitled Capitalism v the Climate. Her thesis is that global capitalism,...
View ArticleNational Gallery outsourcing | Letter from Mark Serwotka and 14 others
National Gallery trustees meet on Thursday as staff prepare for a third period of strike action against plans to privatise two-thirds of the workforce. Outsourcing would not only be bad for loyal staff...
View ArticleThe Office for Budget Responsibility’s role is not to make guesses | Letter...
Your editorial on the role of the Office for Budget Responsibility (9 March) completely misses the point of what parliament has asked us to do.We have been asked to assess the outlook for the public...
View ArticleBank must be careful about raising mortgage costs in current climate
The UK economy can do little more than recover lost ground and this is not enough to spur inflationRecent speeches by Bank of England policymakers have focused on the power of the central bank to...
View ArticleMark Carney allays fears of 30s-style deflationary spiral
Governor of Bank of England says resurgent UK economy means inflation should return to target within two years but not before sinking furtherMark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has sought...
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