Opinion: Heathrow’s Third Runway Would Make Regional Inequality Even Worse
Adam Ramsay
Forget the climate change impacts. Expanding Heathrow is a bad idea, even on the chancellor’s own terms: the economy. Adam Ramsay explains.
Tag: Economy
Analysis: Labour Will End Neoliberalism. Just Not in a Good Way
James Meadway
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has been compared to Margaret Thatcher. But that's just spin, writes James Meadway.
Analysis: Liz Truss’s Downfall Was a Huge Victory for Progressives
Matthew Butcher
Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister left Downing Street a year ago today. While most people remember Liz Truss as a joke, her premiership was actually a catastrophic defeat for the libertarian right, argues Matthew Butcher.
Opinion: Jeremy Hunt’s Budget Didn’t Crash the Economy Again. So Why Aren’t Tories Pleased?
Tom Peters
The budget was a departure from the government's strategy of actively causing chaos and instability, writes Tom Peters.
Opinion: Travelling Across Poland Showed Me That Britain’s Economy Is Broken
Aaron Bastani
The UK is increasingly just a middle-income country with a smattering of rich people. Visit anywhere else in Europe and you’ll see what I mean, writes Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Wow! The Tories Are Planning to ‘Level Up’ Britain Again
James Morrison
Rishi Sunak’s overtures about ‘levelling up’ the ‘left behinds’ obscures who really needs help.
Analysis: Who Would a Housing Crash Hurt?
Matteo Tiratelli
Even if the fabled crash happens, writes Matteo Tiratelli, it might not be good news for renters.
Analysis: Austerity 2.0 is Another Con Job. Don’t Fall for It
James Meadway
The government is laying the groundwork for another round of cuts to keep big finance happy.
Analysis: Britain’s No-Growth Economy Means Politics Is Only Going to Get More Chaotic
Aaron Bastani
In the democratic era, economic growth has funded the policies both parties have used to generate consent. Now our economy is stagnating, we should only expect more instability, writes Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Middle Britain is About to Get Monstered By Our Economic Model
Aaron Bastani
The Bank of England is predicting that inflation could hit 10% this year. If so, it'll hit Middle Britain for six, argues Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: Sunak’s Spring Statement Leaves Britons Poorer
Living standards are set to fall this year by a greater amount than at any time in the past 70 years. Did Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement rise to the challenge?
Opinion: Russia’s War Will Make the Cost of Living Crisis Even Worse
James Meadway
Our living standards are already falling. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead them to plummet. James Meadway explains.
Analysis: The British Empire Wasn’t Just About Race
Kojo Koram
Young people are waking up to the fact that the British empire was not just about identity and race, but about poverty and wealth, democracy and control, writes Kojo Koram.
Opinion: How to Solve the Cost of Living Crisis? Pay Rises, Now!
James Meadway
With inflation in the UK hitting a ten-year high, a significant squeeze on living standards lies ahead, writes James Meadway. The most obvious way to stop this is to pay workers more.
Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab
Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron
The Tories' recent proposal for a new era of 'community-powered Conservativism' is an audacious, though ultimately hollow, bid to park tanks on the left's lawn.
Opinion: Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough
James Meadway
With this year's budget, the Tories may have ended austerity, but the spending increases they are proposing aren't nearly enough to undo the damage they have wrought through a decade of brutal cuts.
Novara Live: What’s in Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Budget?
Rishi Sunak's budget may have come with some big spending pledges, but it's nowhere near enough to undo a decade of austerity.
Opinion: The Government’s Net Zero Strategy Is Beyond Disappointing
James Meadway
Unless the Treasury’s attitude towards borrowing changes, the government's decarbonisation strategy is futile, writes James Meadway.