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Phil Mullan
It’s a recession, Jim, but not as we know it
Western economies are suffering from a triple crisis: an acute sickness, a chronic sickness, and doctors who don’t know what they’re doing.
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| Thursday 14 May 2009 |
Rob Killick
Economic crisis: it's only the end of the beginning
While there has been much speculation about ‘green shoots’ of recovery, it is how we shape the economy after the recession that really matters.
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| Thursday 23 April 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Alistair Darling’s
make-believe Budget
Even by New Labour standards, yesterday’s Budget was an unusually disturbing attempt by our leaders to evade economic responsibility.
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| Monday 6 April 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
‘I never thought I would be a squatter’
Patrick Hayes reports from Visteon in Enfield, where sacked workers launched a surprise occupation of their factory.
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| Thursday 2 April 2009 |
Rob Killick
What the G20 should really be debating
As the G20 kicks off, Rob Killick sets out a three-point agenda that it – and the rest of us – should be talking about.
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| Thursday 2 April 2009 |
Alex Hochuli
Put Politics First
Saturday’s pre-G20 demonstration featured a mish-mash of often contradictory ideas that was more confusing than inspiring.
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| Thursday 26 March 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Beware the Freds under the bed!
The attack on Fred Goodwin’s home is the result of an out-of-control anti-banker witch hunt that was cynically kickstarted by the elite.
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| Monday 9 March 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Diseasing the recession
The UK government’s offer of free therapy to victims of the slump turns a socioeconomic crisis into a mental health issue.
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| Monday 9 March 2009 |
Tim Black
Whatever happened to ‘affluenza’?
The therapeutic elite has slyly shifted from blaming wealth to blaming poverty for our alleged mental instability.
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| Monday 9 March 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
A downturn in moral values?
Watch out: the recession could turn you into a fat fascist wife-beater with anger-control issues. Allegedly.
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| Tuesday 3 March 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Seeing red over ‘Fred the Shred’
Incapable of having an honest debate about the economy, New Labour witch-hunts bankers instead. PLUS: Sean Collins on the politics of pay.
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| Tuesday 24 February 2009 |
Mick Hume
State-run banks won’t save Britain — or even Brown
There is seemingly no financial crisis so bad that it cannot be made potentially worse by the prime minister’s intervention.
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| Tuesday 24 February 2009 |
Rob Killick
What next for the British economy?
In order for the economy to recover and thrive, we need a revolution in political thinking and some serious risk-taking.
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| Tuesday 24 February 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Why It’s Not Our Fault. Honest.
A website designed to show the government offering ‘Real Help Now’ for the economy is an exercise in blame-avoidance.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
Sean Collins
It takes more than money to revive an economy
Why President Obama’s $787 billion recovery package won’t fire up the US economy — and might even make things worse in the long term.
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| Thursday 12 February 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Bashing the bankers will make you go blind
Everyone’s enjoying the two-minute hate against greedy bankers, but it is obscuring a proper, truthful understanding of the recession.
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| Friday 6 February 2009 |
Neil Davenport
The hidden horrors of ‘austerity chic’
A recession could be good for us? The last time austerity ruled Britain, it increased ill-health and authoritarianism and dented community spirit.
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| Monday 12 January 2009 |
Mick Hume
Why rate cuts stir so little interest
The problem facing British capitalism is not just a shortage of credit, but the lack of profitable and productive new sectors in which to invest it.
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| Tuesday 16 December 2008 |
Frank Furedi
The Crisis With No Name
Society's inability to make sense of the downturn is hampering what we really need: a major public debate about the economy.
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| Monday 24 November 2008 |
Stuart Simpson
Darling, it’s all about the global imbalances
Tinkering with UK tax rates and spending plans won’t solve the economic crisis because the ‘fundamentals’ are not sound.
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