David Cameron promises fresh shakeup of public services
Prime minister targets prisons and children in care as he seeks to open up contracts to small businessesDavid Cameron will herald new moves to open up public services to private providers when he hails...
View ArticleDavid Cameron attacks Labour leadership candidates – video
David Cameron criticises the Labour leadership candidates on Friday, saying the party represents a clear threat to the security of British families because budget spending has not been sufficiently...
View ArticleRequired reading to tackle excesses of the financial world | Letters
Well done to George Monbiot for his blistering attack on the excesses of the financial world (Opinion, 9 September). But he sets out the problems without offering solutions. Here is one suggestion. The...
View ArticleChancellor George Osborne faces a stormy autumn
Retailers are angry, exporters are worried and productivity is still poor – then comes worse news from overseasAs he gazes across the Commons to a new shadow cabinet, George Osborne will doubtless be...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne will give you a pay rise. But he won’t let you fight for one
The chancellor’s higher minimum wage will benefit the low-paid. But the Tories’ trade union bill simultaneously strips them of their bargaining power at workThe backlash has begun. CBI director general...
View ArticleNo pay rise? Blame the baby boomers' gilded pension pots
Resolution Foundation study reveals overlooked link between firms limiting wage rises to plug pension liabilities of retired staffWorkers expecting Britain’s economic recovery to fill out their pay...
View ArticleBusiness leaders left unworried by Jeremy Corbyn's new Labour lineup
Stock market ends day slightly down after election of Labour’s new leader and the appointment of his senior teamBusiness leaders were treading carefully in their approach to the new Labour leadership...
View ArticleJohn McDonnell: unreconstructed on the left, but with allies on the right
Profile Years of political isolation on the far left fringe of New Labour earned him the label “loony left” but now as shadow chancellor McDonnell has joined the establishment. John McDonnell, the new...
View ArticleJohn McDonnell's economics: Milibandism freed from New Labour
With the Marx-reading campaigner as shadow chancellor, renationalisation is back on the agenda along with wealth tax and a higher living wage Chris Leslie, Labour’s short-lived post-election shadow...
View ArticleBaby boomers aren’t to blame for today’s workers’ woes | Letters
Phillip Inman continues the drip-drip assault on the financial security of older people (No pay rise? Blame the baby boomers’ gilded pension pots, 14 September). Can we recall that the final-salary...
View ArticleBarry Moore obituary
Economist who became a noted authority on the business of scientific innovation and the revival of ailing regionsMany practitioners of the “gloomy science” are the object of scathing criticism these...
View ArticleBank of England edges closer to first interest rate rise in nine years
Two monetary policy committee members tell MPs increase is needed soon but governor still favours wait until end of yearThe Bank of England has edged closer to its first interest rate rise in nine...
View ArticleBank of England hawks may not swoop on interest rates just yet
Despite hints of a winter increase in borrowing costs, recent figures suggest the economy is going through a soft patch rather than something more seriousFor the past couple of months, the Bank of...
View ArticleThe Leap Manifesto isn't radical. It's a way out of Canada's head-in-the-sand...
A powerful movement in Canada, animated by a compelling and positive vision for the climate and economy, can force the hand of whichever government comes to powerEvery political class considers...
View ArticleThe Mexico City earthquake, 30 years on: have its lessons been forgotten?
The feeble response of ruling politicians to the devastating 1985 quake sparked a grassroots movement to challenge corruption and secure low-cost housing. Yet modern Mexico City often seems indifferent...
View ArticleUK business minister to tackle steel dumping in China trip
Pledge by Anna Soubry comes as SSI halts production at Redcar steel works amid slide in prices The government looks set to clash with Chinese ministers next week after promising to raise the sensitive...
View ArticleNHS on brink of collapse, warns former health minister
Norman Lamb predicts healthcare system will crash in two years and says Tories are being dishonest over crisisThe National Health Service will crash within two years with catastrophic consequences...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne: We should embrace China, not fear its rise
Ahead of China visit, chancellor says UK must be ‘best partner in the west’, and develop financial and cultural linksThe United Kingdom must strive to become China’s “best partner in the west” by...
View ArticleIt’s in Britain’s interest to bond with China now | George Osborne
The future prosperity of this country depends on us strengthening our relationship with the world’s next superpowerTake yourself forward, for a moment, and imagine it is the year 2030. Children born...
View ArticleModern capitalism needs an opponent. It needs Jeremy Corbyn
The Labour leader’s rise may seem to be a response to internal party frictions. In fact, it is a reflection of widening disquiet over an inegalitarian systemThe broader background to the elevation of...
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