Economy

What do European nations spend their money on?

Mortgages helped cause the 2008 financial crash. Now they may bring about a new crisis

It appears that she has not inherited the financial skills that her father, NR Narayana Murthy, has

Trickle-down economics is a big lie and always has been, argues one reader

In today's society, justice as fairness is under threat

If you can’t afford to turn on the heating this winter, Jake Berry has a simple solution – make sure you can afford to

The tottering Truss regime is facing a new rebellion over planned cuts to public spending - but they are inevitable to pay for its lower tax plans

Despite having similar backgrounds of Oxbridge and early Conservative activism, the pair have never gotten along

Liz Truss has made the worst start of any prime minister, revealing herself as a tinpot, tin-eared Margaret Thatcher impersonator

We may be living a dog's life. But, when left uncared for street dogs are far from docile. The government needs to watch out

A European round up of how the chancellor's economic policies were viewed across the continent

The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans

What better way to fund the ailing NHS than open it up to commercial sponsorship? Comedian MITCH BENN suggests some policies we should be glad the chancellor left out of his mini budget

The schoolboy errors in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget have put the UK economy at risk and dealt the PM a self-inflicted blow from which she may not recover

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have turned Britain into a giant experiment to test out the riskiest of trickle-down fantasies

What the US playwright can teach us about Britain’s falling currency and fading international reputation

A willingness to adapt rather than stick with the ways of the past would be beneficial for the contemporary political environment

Guided by a right-wing Brexiteer with an outdated view of the economy, Liz Truss is setting the UK on a disastrous course

There has been more nuanced conversation on reality television than during the Tory leadership race, says one reader

Britain’s energy crisis is even harder to fix than you thought – and Truss and Sunak don’t even seem to be trying

Liz Truss is promising a bonfire of rules and regulations. But every other prime minister has tried that and failed – for good reason

Sadly, Truss's delusional attitude means the Tory government is likely to stand in the way of the change needed to make renewables work

The bosses of the 22 major water companies are not only excellent at awarding themselves bonuses, but also mismanaging supplies

So, naturally, there are signs of social unrest and civil disobedience across the country

The Tories are obsessed with reneging the carbon target and fracking their way to oblivion. It's a mystery to experts

The harsh reality of how this is achieved is that it takes from the public not once, but twice

Scholz's convenient “memory loss” about his involvement in the Cum-Ex scandal not only tarnishes his own image, but harms trust in Germany's political system

Britain doesn’t really ‘do’ street protest in the manner of some European nations. Will that now change?

The world’s advanced economies are coming back to life after Covid... with a notable exception

Truss has been described as “a woman so dense that light bends around her”, shares one reader