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Fifty years after joining the European Communities, Britain still doesn’t know what it is or wants
Britain’s unresolved Europe question is inseparable from its unresolved England question.
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Leader: How to reverse British decline
Rather than indulging in post-imperial fantasies, Britain should learn from those mid-sized economies that are both richer and more equal…
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UK energy prices surged as snow fell
The price of power traded at a record high of £620.28 per megawatt hour.
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American hubris
The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss.
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In partner dancing, the man leads: I should be aggrieved, but instead I feel liberated
“Relax, relax,” my partner says, and once I stop thinking about what foot I’m putting where, my body falls into…
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Almost half of UK offshore wind is owned by foreign governments
A mere 0.03 per cent of offshore wind is owned by British public entities.
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Britain is not an emerging market – it’s worse than that
Twelve wasted years, and all the Tories have to show for it is ruin.
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“Brexit has been disappointing”: Labour Leave chair John Mills on his regrets
The JML founder says Downing Street should have capitalised on the weak pound to pursue a more ambitious growth agenda.
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The UK is the only G7 economy not to have recovered from the Covid crash
Britain’s GDP remains 0.2 per cent below its pre-pandemic level in 2019.
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Get ready for the next housing crisis: negative equity
As interest rates rise and mortgages become unaffordable, the whole system will start to crumble.
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From the US, the UK’s economic policy appears senseless
In America the view that sterling is now an emerging market currency is not a meme but a widely-held sentiment.
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There will be no UK-US trade deal – and the Brexit fantasy has been punctured
Having cut themselves off from Europe, the Tories are adrift without a destination or a steering wheel.
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Why we should celebrate British sentimentality
The emotional openness shown after the death of the Queen makes us a better and kinder country.
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How India has overtaken the UK as the world’s fifth-largest economy
Based on current prices, UK GDP is smaller than it was before the 2008 financial crisis.
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The history of the royals is tangled and bloody. But so is that of the nation they rule
The monarchy bears the fractures of the Union’s past, and underpins its present.
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Has the UK gone cold on Russian sanctions?
Six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, enthusiasm for the economic war on Putin is hard to find.
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UK real wages have fallen at a record rate
Earnings remain below their 2008 level after falling 3 per cent over the past eight months.
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How UK house prices are soaring above wage growth
Since January 2019 house prices have risen by 25.6 per cent – twice as fast as wages.
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When will we be able to talk about Brexit again?
The cost of leaving the EU is becoming ever clearer but the Conservatives and Labour have taken a vow of…
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