As he prepares to replace Keir Starmer as British prime minister, Andy Burnham has many of the right ideas – and a very narrow economic and political path to implement them.
The Government’s own plan is to increase budgetary reliance on windfall corporation tax receipts. Something has to give before it’s too late, its fiscal watchdog has warned.
If economic success doesn’t move voters in Poland, economic failure doesn’t move them in the UK. In today’s fractious politics, it is all about the tribe.
Competing spending priorities and the repayment of debt contracted after Covid leave gaps to be filled under the Irish presidency of the EU. Jonathan Keane reports from Brussels and Thomas Hubert from Mullingar.
Michael Healy-Rae’s resignation is less about one man and more about a system that rewards noise over responsibility.
Something seems to have changed in the past ten days. If it brings more scrutiny to how successive governments have continued to unthinkingly throw taxpayers’ money at problems, it will be for the best.
This is a case of the State using the country’s balance sheet to insulate domestic businesses from international shocks — using international money. This model, as we know, is unsustainable.
The overlap between fuel-price and anti-immigrant protest organisers goes hand-in-hand with their disregard for the hurt they cause to small businesses and their staff.
The movement started by Michael Gove’s public call to ditch the experts has ended with Donald Trump stuck at the Strait of Hormuz. The consequences are, at last, sinking in.
Friendly countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East are frustrated with President Trump but also reliant on the U.S. for their security, writes Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal.
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