The climate action NGO WRAP has today published the annual updates of its voluntary agreements for the food, plastics and textiles sectors. The publication comes with a stark…
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In 2001, a little before 9/11, I wrote the first of a new pamphlet series by the New Economics Foundation. It was called Why London…
Our poor NHS is rather like many of our fellow citizens suffering from a post-Covid Syndrome. Two years after the pandemic, we have the longest ever…
Liz Truss had promised the review of the Bank of England’s (BoE) independence in monetary policy decisions during her Conservative Party leadership contest in August…
There is currently a debate around whether the government should break the pension triple lock, the commitment to increase pensions in line with the higher…
The UK economy is in dire shape. During the first quarter of 2022 we sustained an overall balance of payments deficit of over £50bn, almost…
In his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced an overhaul of important aspects of insurance regulation known as Solvency II rules. Insurance industry lobbyists claim…
Budget days are hard core politics wrapped in economics. They are the embodiment of that important but now less used term – our political economy….
Global trends in aid funding are becoming increasingly unreliable and media driven. It is therefore essential we secure more sustainable ways to fund our support…
In a recent New York Times column, Paul Krugman argues that the core elements of inflation are not only groceries and gasoline, but also housing. Indeed,…
You don’t have to look too far right now to find talk of crisis, whether it is the cost of living, the state of national…
Many years ago, I heard the doyen of campaigners, Des Wilson, explaining why he didn’t think that lying down in front of traffic was a…