The Royal Mail – for public service or private profit?
Is it our fault? Are we asleep at the wheel, mildly surprised at the sell-off of much that was thought
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Economics
Economic prospects in 2023: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for
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Economic prospects in 2022: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in
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Death in the valley – is this finally the alarm that can’t be ignored?
With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay
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Economic prospects for 2021: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms
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“A pandemic spreads” – what are we learning about failed neoliberal economics?
Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch
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How the AA was hollowed-out by Anglo American economics
The world of staycation is bound to lead to those sad scenes by motorways and country roads of the broken
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How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such
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National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces
How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?
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