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*Comment & Analysis

British productivity: Unrecovered from the financial crisis

Productivity: Everything you need to know about the problem strangling the economy

*Comment & Analysis

Email exchange between Seb Dance and Nigel Farage

Labour MEP takes Farage to task for Soros witchhunt

*Blog

"For real change, Universal Credit doesn't need tinkering with - it needs a complete overhaul."

Changes to Universal Credit are welcome but they don’t go far enough

*Blogs

"The Conservatives will be left looking for manifesto gimmicks to get them over the line – of the sort that Hammond has delivered, five years too early, and six months too late"

Hammond’s manifesto – five years too early, six months too late

*Comment & Analysis

Concerns around casual labour are leading to a more sophisticated understanding of employment

Budget 2017: Hammond is surprisingly thoughtful about the nature of work

*Comment & Analysis

Hammond had to contend with the National Insurance U-turn fiasco from his spring statement

Budget 2017: Brexit has taken Britain’s eyes off the ball

*Blog

"Over the last few years, May's 'hostile environment' has seeped into every area of life"

The fightback against May’s hostile environment has begun

The government faces a series of legal challenges over its ‘hostile environment’ policies

*Blog

"On New Year’s Day, Brexit will start in earnest, in this small policy area"

Carbon trading: The Brexit cliff edge starts on New Year’s Day

Brexit confusion will kick in a lot sooner than many people realise

*Comment & Analysis

$Concerns are increasingly being raised about heavy-handed policing of anti-fracking demos$

Kettling tea ladies: Hardline policing of fracking demos is out of control

*Comment & Analysis

Alex Salmond on his RT set

RT is a tyranny sampler and Salmond shouldn’t be anywhere near it

*Comment & Analysis

A Rohingya Muslim woman holds the hands of her grandchildren at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh

May’s belated hand-wringing won’t help the Rohingya

*Blog

"Why not consider a one-off wealth tax to pay for the one-off Brexit bill?"

A one-off wealth tax would pay for the Brexit bill

*Blog

Yesterday, the Telegraph ran a headline describing the 15 likely Tory MP rebels on the repeal bill as "mutineers"

Mutineers and saboteurs: How war imagery took over the Brexit movement

*Blog

"The Conservatives have settled on an electorally profitable immigration message, but it has strapped them into a Brexit strategy with very little wriggle room."

No-deal: Courting Ukip locks Tories into high-risk Brexit strategy

*Blog

"If we are to stand any chance of turning the tide of insecurity and hate, progressives must take back control of the argument"

The progressive left needs to remember its roots and start speaking up for immigration

*Blog

"The Today Programme is undeniably an institution"

The decline of the Today programme: How bust-ups replaced debate

*Blog

"The challenge for the chancellor is that the scale of funding required for the NHS is large and ongoing"

Brexit, weak growth and an ageing population risk sinking the NHS

*Comment & Analysis

"The Indian authorities have a lot to answer for. But so too do the British."

The untold story of how Britain turned a blind eye to a Sikh massacre

News

Child maintenance records are being shared with the Home Office for immigration enforcement purposes

Single parent families could be left ‘destitute’ as Home Office accesses child maintenance records

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