This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have
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I had hoped that we would, by now, have been able to announce the next Funding the Future event. We have been working quite hard
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I have been writing for years about the pernicious impact of the way in which UK electricity prices are set, based as they are on
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Nothing about Peter Mandelson’s departures from government has ever been quiet. So it is proving again. As the Guardian noted yesterday, much of what has
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The core purpose of government is to provide freedom from fear. That means freedom from physical threat, Freedom from want, freedom from discrimination and freedom
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As The Guardian notes this morning: UK GDP rose by 0.5% in February, new data from the Office for National Statistics shows. That’s much stronger
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My old friend Prem Sikka, who now sits in the House of Lords as Lord Sikka, drew my attention yesterday to a couple of answers
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As the New York Times reports this morning: The S&P 500 hit a fresh record high on Wednesday, reflecting investors’ optimism that a peace deal
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Lord George Robertson – a former Labour defence secretary, and former Secretary General of NATO – has made a claim about the UK’s defence capability
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