Larry Elliott has said for the Guardian today that ‘the laissez-faire economic model has proved a complete dud’. Peter Hitchens agrees. Is there an alternative?
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I am not sure how to react to this: I am so sorry now that I fell for the great Thatcher-Reagan promise. I can’t deny
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I recommend an article in the Observer today. It begins: From selfies on super-yachts to posing with private jets, the young heirs of the uber-wealthy
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Bill Keegan has been an economic commentator for longer than most. That does not mean he is worth reading. That’s the case because what he
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The Sunday Times reports this morning that: An international consulting firm won or managed foreign aid contracts worth more than £25m at the Department for
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There is little to celebrate about the steel dispute. The government has been cruelly exposed as the possessor of dogma but no useful policy. People
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In February it looked as if financial markets were going to crash. They didn’t. This is the FTSE 100 index for the first quarter of
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News has leaked that as a consequence of plans to block tax haven abuse a consortium of international firms is, quite literally, launching an alternative.
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The steel industry is dirty. It eats energy. It consumes the earth’s resources. And as yet we need it. The Chinese could, and are, swamping
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