Tag: economics

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 ...

On Monday 3 April, the Conservative government announced it had sold more of the public's shares in Lloyds Banking Group. ...

The Green Party is considering one of its most radical policies yet - to introduce a three day weekend in ...

As the media frenzy around Jeremy Corbyn's first speech of 2017 gathered pace on Tuesday 10 January, one story slipped ...

Throughout the attempted Labour leadership coup, a particular criticism of Corbyn has cemented its place in the cultural consciousness. After the ...

Dictatorships suck. But if we in Western nations focus on the barbaric actions of regimes abroad, we often take focus ...

Seconds after George Osborne finished delivering his March 2016 budget, Jeremy Corbyn stepped up and took it to pieces. Corbyn's ...

Jeremy Corbyn launched a scathing attack on "the establishment" in his speech to the British Chambers of Commerce on Thursday. ...

Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King, who was the head of the UK central bank in the run up to ...

George Osborne has been warned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) that his Fiscal Charter will require him to ...

Iran has started charging for its oil exports in euros, instead of in US dollars. A lengthy embargo on Iranian ...

The deficit figures for October 2015 have been published, and, not for the first time, they show that George Osborne's ...

George Osborne is running a grand experiment on trickle-up economics, by paying for tax cuts for the wealthy, with welfare ...