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Steady growth or a slowing economy?

Kitty Ussher has been looking at the UK economy through rose-tinted spectacles in her surprisingly over-optimistic assessment of Britain’s growth prospects under George Osborne. Ussher says that ‘the economy is in good shape’ and that the Office for Budget...

Dying to work

Today, 18 April 2016, in the houses of parliament the energy giant E-On will be the first United Kingdom company to sign up to the Trades Union Congress’ Dying to Work charter, committing it, as an employer, to supporting workers diagnosed with terminal illness. The...

Taxing questions for the chancellor

The leaked Panama Papers shone a light on the murky world of tax havens and will have far-reaching implications across the world. People are rightly angered that a super-rich elite strive to avoid or evade paying their taxes. David Cameron’s use of an offshore trust...

British steel needs an industrial strategy

How many steel crises does it take to get this government to realise it needs a proper long-term industrial strategy? That is the question many of us were asking this week as ministers were hauled in front of the House of Commons yet again to explain what support the...