Tag: economics

A BBC News item using a cartoon of Rishi Sunak as Superman has caused controversy. So much so that the ...

For decades, our society has been deteriorating. And our tolerance for the discomfort and death of our fellow human beings ...

A financial professional has already pulled apart the 2020 budget. But don't worry. You don't need to read a complex ...

Leading economists have backed Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto and said Labour should form the next government. "The UK economy needs reform" ...

An economist has torn right through the media propaganda suggesting Labour's fully-costed 2019 manifesto is somehow 'extreme'. Award-winning economist Ann Pettifor insists ...

The Tories spend a lot of time arguing that we should shrink the welfare state that heals our sick and ...

In less than three minutes, a new video from the Labour Party shows just how simple it is to fix ...

Economics commentator Grace Blakeley took BBC Question Time by storm on 14 February. "Much more important than the nature of ...

Economics can be a boring subject. But during BBC Newsnight on 11 February, economics commentator Grace Blakeley made it accessible and ...

If you've been listening to government ministers recently, you'd be forgiven for thinking that our current economic position was one ...

If you were wondering what the time was on the evening of Wednesday 28 March, it was around 'our-national-debt-hitting-a-flabbergasting-milestone' o'clock. ...

Theresa May was faced with a question she couldn't answer truthfully without losing face at today's prime minister's questions (PMQs). ...

Theresa May promised "strong and stable" government in the 2017 general election campaign. But the economic record of her government ...

The BBC's Andrew Neil picked a fight with economics professor Jonathan Portes late on 22 November. It didn't go well. ...

On Thursday 29 June, George Osborne announced he had a new job. But besides the obvious struggle to keep up ...

A central Conservative Party line of attack against Labour has always been its economic incompetence. But a tucked-away Tory manifesto ...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP on the Treasury Select Committee, went up against University College London (UCL) Professor Mariana Mazzucato on ...