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A future Labour government must shake-up skills on the scale the last transformed the NHS ‘We toured the country to talk about immigration and came back talking about skills’, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer tells this magazine (page 20) in his exclusive...

British workers need second language skills, writes Manuel Cortes A debate is raging about the effects of European Union migration on wages. The ‘conventional’ narrative would have its effect on pay for those on lowest earnings as negative even though academic...

I think everybody agrees that language learning is a good thing. But like many ‘good things’ it needs government backing to happen. Whilst ramping up the positive rhetoric on learning languages the Conservative government has wreaked havoc in the real world. First of...

Britain likes to think of itself as a global nation. It had the first global empire, and became the first global state. The UK’s economists and politicians were vital in setting up both the IMF and World Bank, and Britain has shared with the world many pioneers, from...