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Analysis: No, Higher Wages Won’t Fix the Cost of Living Crisis

Matteo Tiratelli

Sexy as degrowth may be on the left, it’s productivity gains that have driven rising living standards over the past half-century, writes Matteo Tiratelli.

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Opinion: Nobody Cares What Your New Year Resolutions Are, So You Might As Well Do Something You Enjoy

Rachel Connolly

So often, new year resolutions are an attempt at self-improvement. They’re also an attempt to forget that so much of human life is meaningless, writes Rachel Connolly.

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Opinion: It’s Not Enough to Defend the Five-Day Week – We Must Demand Four

Aidan Harper

Overworked Britons breathed a sigh of relief when the Tories abandoned rumoured plans to remove the 48-hour cap on the working week. This scare should shock us out of our complacency about working hours, writes Aidan Harper, and restart the fight for a 32-hour week.

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Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit

Matthew Cole

The much-prophesied “jobs apocalypse” of the fourth industrial revolution will likely never materialise. Yet that isn't to say new technologies aren't degrading work, warns Matthew Cole.

The Bastani Factor: Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔

The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?

IMOBastani: A Broken Economy

This week’s PMQs revealed just how badly the Tories are managing the British economy

IMOBastani: Britain’s Economy Is in Meltdown

In all honesty Britain’s economy is absolutely broken, ten years ago it was common to hear of a lost decade for Japan and Italy, well the same has just happened to Britain on the things that matter like wages and productivity while the deficit, the one thing the Tories wanted to be measured by, is […]