Economy
Liz Truss plummets to success
The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans
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Think the budget was bad? Look what Kwasi left out…
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
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Trussonomics is dead already … strangled at birth by ferocious market forces
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
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Kwarteng’s gamble is doomed: This is trickle-down Tory economics at its most brutal and risky
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have turned Britain into a giant experiment to test out the riskiest of trickle-down fantasies
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Why take the cap off bankers’ bonuses?
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Tennessee Williams and a pound no one desires
What the US playwright can teach us about Britain’s falling currency and fading international reputation
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Everyday Philosophy: Should we be more like water?
A willingness to adapt rather than stick with the ways of the past would be beneficial for the contemporary political environment
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It’s going to get sticky
Guided by a right-wing Brexiteer with an outdated view of the economy, Liz Truss is setting the UK on a disastrous course
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We can’t afford another two years of these clowns
There has been more nuanced conversation on reality television than during the Tory leadership race, says one reader
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Can the new prime minister keep the lights on?
Britain’s energy crisis is even harder to fix than you thought – and Truss and Sunak don’t even seem to be trying
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Britain’s phoney war on red tape
Liz Truss is promising a bonfire of rules and regulations. But every other prime minister has tried that and failed – for good reason
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In an energy crisis, why does Truss want to turn off the sun?
Sadly, Truss's delusional attitude means the Tory government is likely to stand in the way of the change needed to make renewables work
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How Britain’s water bosses raked it in
The bosses of the 22 major water companies are not only excellent at awarding themselves bonuses, but also mismanaging supplies
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Everyday Philosophy: Heat or eat is not a choice fit for a civilised society
So, naturally, there are signs of social unrest and civil disobedience across the country
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That burning smell is the deadly cost of cutting the ‘green crap’
The Tories are obsessed with reneging the carbon target and fracking their way to oblivion. It's a mystery to experts
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The executives on the make
The harsh reality of how this is achieved is that it takes from the public not once, but twice
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Germansplaining: A very Scholz Scandal
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
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A storm is coming
Britain doesn’t really ‘do’ street protest in the manner of some European nations. Will that now change?
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The trade figures are a disaster for Brexiteers – and for Britain
The world’s advanced economies are coming back to life after Covid... with a notable exception
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Just how bad will PM Truss be? Let us count the ways…
Truss has been described as “a woman so dense that light bends around her”, shares one reader
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Germansplaining: What’s causing Germany’s tax fiasco?
The country has a lack of digital infrastructure. Germany is a fax republic
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Liz Truss’s tragic money tree
When it comes to the economy, the Tory frontrunner is taking the worst possible advice from the worst possible advisers
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My 6-point plan to avert catastrophe
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will heed it