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It is a fact universally acknowledged that the moment any government minister announces a hosepipe ban the heavens open and we get days of unending rain. The drought in parts of England, however, is just the latest example of a long-standing policy failure to properly...

We must learn from our past without retracing our steps. That will require a new analysis of the role of the state and the market, writes Douglas Alexander in this extract from The Purple Book Various accounts of why Labour lost have circulated since the 2010 defeat....

The problems faced by the peripheral countries of the eurozone have, for the first time in many years, propelled the oft-cited bond yield figures into the national conscience. George Osborne, the chancellor of the UK, has played a role in this as he is fervently...