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China: the must-visit destination for cash-seeking world leaders
UK and other nations are keen to benefit from China's economic power and seem prepared to push aside human rights concernsThis week it was David Cameron playing table tennis, Joe Biden touting...
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Living standards to be lower in 2015 than in 2010, IFS warns
Delivering its judgment on George Osborne's autumn statement, Institute for Fiscal Studies backs claims by Ed Balls that family budgets are being squeezed hardBritain's leading experts on tax and...
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: autumn statement and Mandela's legacy
George Osborne delivered his fourth autumn statement this week with a keen sense of relish. He was able to point to improving economic growth - sharply adjusted upwards since March - and falling...
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How far can privatisation go? Perhaps the government itself could be...
The 'selling of the family silver' that began in earnest under Thatcher is still in train; sometimes I wonder if the entire political class should be put out to tenderThe phrase "selling the family...
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What does George Osborne's growth offer the young? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The forecasts of growth should be good news for young people just starting out in work, but in fact this appears to be a recovery for the elderly, the wealthy and the bossesThe morning after a budget...
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We won't be bullied into allowing our university to be privatised | Michael...
While Sussex management claims to support freedom of expression, its action in suspending us suggests otherwiseOn Wednesday evening, after coming home from work, I found an email in my inbox from the...
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Government abandons plan to outsource military procurement
Defence secretary Philip Hammond to examine other options after all but one of the external bidders pull outGovernment plans to recruit a private consortium to buy military equipment are to be formally...
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What good's a job-rich recovery if the workers stay poor?
George Osborne's answer to the weakness of British wages is to deny that the problem existsGeorge Osborne's autumn statement was an all-purpose political pick-and-mix of tax cuts for shopkeepers and...
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Eurostar share sale likely to give French total control
France's state-owned operator SNCF may be the sole bidder for the UK's 40% stakeTwo centuries after he dreamed of digging beneath the sea to reach his island nemesis to the north, Napoleon Bonaparte...
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Osborne wants to take us back to 1948. Time to look forward instead | Will...
Plans in the Treasury's autumn statement to return state spending to 1948 levels will do permanent damage to BritainIt is an incidental sentence, but it brought me up short. By 2018, general government...
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Public donations to national debt payoff total nearly £900,000
Treasury figures show that most of the money given since April – more than £897,000 – is in the form of bequestsMembers of the public have donated almost £900,000 to the government so far this...
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Ed Balls: 'I couldn't give a toss' about criticism
Shadow chancellor hits back amid speculation he may lose his job following criticism of his response to the autumn statementEd Balls, the shadow chancellor, has said that he "couldn't give a toss"...
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George Osborne's economic policy: more poverty, worse public services | Larry...
The chancellor is shrinking the state to pre-1948 levels. He has other options butthis is not just about the moneyGeorge Osborne has received little flak for his austerity programme. Opinion pollsters...
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British technology's uncertain future | @guardianletters
It is no surprise that British companies are being outpaced in the global commercialisation of graphene and other high technologies, even though they are being pioneered by British universities (How...
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Most Britons have felt no benefits from economic recovery, opinion poll finds
Tories creep up on Labour by two points, despite 70% of voters polled by ICM/Guardian saying they have not seen any gainsMost people in Britain are still not feeling the benefit from economic recovery,...
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Let's admit it: Britain is now a developing country | Aditya Chakrabortty
We have iPads and broadband – but also oversubscribed foodbanks. Our economy is no longer zooming along unchallenged in the fast lane, but a clapped-out motorElite economic debate boils down to this: a...
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George Osborne's failure to rebalance the economy | @guardianletters
Your editorial on the chancellor's autumn statement (6 December) points up many crucial questions about Britain's welcome but weak economic growth. What you do not say is how crucial has been the...
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UK economy needs sustained low interest rates, says Mark Carney
Bank of England governor warns Britain's economy remains blighted by high unemployment and slow export growthBritain's economy needs sustained low interest rates to spur growth and repair the stricken...
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Guardian/ICM poll: growing pains
With wages stagnant, prices rising and incomes so skewed to the top, it is haughty folly to assume the public is merely confusedKnocked off the news by the death of the man who overthrew apartheid,...
View ArticleJoe Hockey to deliver gloomy mid-year economic statement
Treasurer will confirm in 'graphic detail' that Australia is experiencing below-trend growth and rising unemploymentLenore Taylor
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