Economics

Economics and the public finances, government spending, economic and taxation policy and related issue

People demonstrating against poverty. One banner says "Fight poverty, not the poor."

We can eliminate poverty: but we have decided not to

December 7, 2023

Original Gladstone Budget box

Tories sink the economy while Labour’s response is dismal

November 28, 2023

Photo of a the Chancellor's red budget case and a folder titled: "Autumn statement 2023"

Chancellor’s pre-election giveaways leave households £1,900 poorer

November 23, 2023

Composite photo of a poor man running beside a carriage carrying a placard that reads: "If it pleases sir, I beseech you to cut inheritance tax, sir."

Cutting inheritance tax makes no sense: cutting income tax does

November 21, 2023

Private yacht

Marking the million: There’s plenty of money: it’s just that the rich have it all

November 11, 2023

Aerial view of the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk

Marking the million: Freeports are a threat to democracy

November 8, 2023

Man pocketing cash

Government lets companies spend money they don’t have

October 25, 2023

Worried pensioner reading papers at his desk

A pension edifice built on sand. Is anyone noticing?

October 9, 2023

A row of terraced houses in north London.

Why scrapping inheritance tax is a bad idea

September 26, 2023

A man bungee-jumping into a canyon

Taking the risk out of job change

September 21, 2023

Private yacht

There’s plenty of money: it’s just that the very rich have got it all

September 17, 2023

Prop holding up the ceiling at the reception of Oxborough and Necton Wards, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Norfolk.

It is time we came to terms with our investment crisis

September 10, 2023

Young people worrying about bills.

Election-year living standards: winners and losers

September 6, 2023

Michael Parkinson at the 2007 Bradford International Film Festival

Fear, impostors and inflation

September 3, 2023

Nurses strike outside Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

The crisis in the public sector – and how to resolve it

August 14, 2023

AI-generated image using the prompt: "wet blotchy watercolor london skyline:

Unmasking economic fallacies: the solution the UK needs

August 13, 2023

Black and white photo of the back of a young boy crying

Child poverty – are politicians willing to stop the causes?

Aerial view of the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk

Freeports are a threat to democracy

Banknotes tied with red ribbon

Inheritance: the good tax everybody hates

Traditional pawnbroker sign of three balls

A million of us turn to pawnshops. Dickensian Britain returns

Wealth disparity. An old man pushes a trolly with all his belongings past young women with a Louis Vuitton handbag trying to hail a cab.

Wealth inequality soaring

Row of houses with 'to let' signs outside

Home ownership is shrinking, private renting isn’t working – what’s next?

Couple looking worriedly at a bill - cost of living crisis

Why profits, not pay, have caused the cost of living crisis

Kate's friends around a table in a restaurant

The Europe project – we’ve moved on, so should the UK

Pylons at Dungeness power station

Brexit has inflated energy bills by over £1 billion

Protester holding up a placard that reads: "If you're not angry, you're not paying attention"

A new economic model for the left

Book Cover

The Limits to Growth: 50 years on

Coltishall High Street

20 minute communities exist, but are hard to create

Container ship from the China Shipping Line docked at Felixstowe port

Why Britain’s new CPTPP trade deal will not make up for Brexit

Gold ingots

Is it time to tax wealth?

Night photo of the city of London in the style of an oil painting.

Four ways the UK economy is being hampered by the private sector

Exterior photo of the P&O ferry, the Pride of Burgundy, berthed at Dover

Outrage as company behind P&O’s 800 illegal sackings gets lucrative freeport role

Ten pound note

It’s not easy doing good

Exterior view of "The Empire" in Great Yarmouth.

Three ways to attract skilled people to deprived communities

Then Prime Minister David Cameron visits the Ford motor factory in Dagenham Essex. He and three other men in hard hats and high-viz jackets walk through the plant with a huge 'Ford' sign above their heads.

The axe falls on Ford researchers in Essex

February 16, 2023

An official portrait of Liz Truss as Prime Minister, sitting next to the Union flag.

Truss budget claims slammed as untrue: Kwarteng was warned

February 5, 2023

Brexit poisons everything

Are we getting Brexit done?

January 5, 2023

Man peering over the edge of an abyss

The waste we should be looking at

December 23, 2022

Staff required notice outside pub

Why does no-one want to work any more?

December 21, 2022

Nurses strike outside Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

Bank blunders and government scrooges lead us into recession

December 15, 2022

Coin stack

The Sunday Long Read: time for a personal windfall tax

December 4, 2022

Photo of Nigel Farage.

Why Brexit is a cult – and what can be done to rescue those trapped in that cult

November 27, 2022

Cartoon of Jeremy Hunt as the 'big bad wolf' at the door of the poor. Caption: "Huffing and puffing..."

Exclusive: low paid betrayed as government sneaks back their new earnings

November 18, 2022

Cattle grazing in a field outside Southwold, Suffolk

Eustice confesses: post-Brexit Australia deal is poor

November 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt sitting next to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Government spending is not like a household budget

November 13, 2022

Rishi Sunak in Downing Street

Frightful Friday, Manic Monday and Wonky Wednesday: Sunak’s choices

October 26, 2022

MSC Tina docked at Felixstowe

Shock as Britain finds EU trade suffers because we choose not to offer what it wants

October 10, 2022

homeless man

Getting the income safety net right

October 9, 2022

Liz Truss and Kwarsi Kwarteng sitting at the cabinet table

Truss chaos marks the end of the affair – time to reclaim democracy

October 4, 2022

Trussonomics – what now?

September 28, 2022

LETS live

September 28, 2022

Elderly woman sitting on her bed.

Why the ghost of Jonathan Swift must be laughing – or how to cull the elderly

September 27, 2022

HM Treasure Growth Plan 2022 report

A short guide to gilts, markets – and why they are important

September 26, 2022

Uncharted territory

Why the economy is now in uncharted territory

September 24, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng: Photo by H.M.Treasury via flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Questions for Kwarteng

September 21, 2022

Liz Truss hosts her first cabinet meeting with newly appointed ministers.

As Truss goes to war with Britain, we can do better than this

September 7, 2022

Woman with head in hands

Desperation: our readers’ challenge to Liz Truss

September 5, 2022

Graphic by Epic Top Ten via flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Are we measuring inflation properly?

August 31, 2022

Liz Truss giving a speech at Chatham House. She has said she would help people with the cost-of-living crisis by lowering taxes, not giving “handouts”.

Cost of living crisis: the UK needs to raise taxes not cut them – here’s why

August 30, 2022

Gas stove flame.

£100 bn energy companies bail-out is the worst solution to the winter crisis

August 25, 2022

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