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The mini-budget is another worrying sign that the new Government is downgrading the importance of women’s rights, reports Sascha Lavin
The Chancellor has announced a series of massive tax cuts for high earners and corporations, which have seen the pound slump and the value of Government bonds fall. Why is the Prime Minister risking turning an economic crisis into a disaster?
Sam Bright considers the benefits of taxing the richest people and corporations
We are now living through the bleak predictions made in the Brexit contingency report in 2019, says TJ Coles
Traditional, hierarchical attitudes to work are going to stifle the economic growth that Liz Truss so craves, argues Rachel Morris
Liz Truss’ proposal to end the cap on bankers’ bonuses is unlikely to spur economic growth, reports Sam Bright
Boris Johnson’s flagship regional redistribution project has stalled and Liz Truss is likely to send it into reverse, writes Sam Bright
The Government’s own data suggests that Britain’s fossil fuel lobbies want to use the cost of living crisis to keep themselves afloat, writes Nafeez Ahmed
While the Government attempts to assuage the fears of the international community, it has been quashing protests at home, reports Saroj Pathirana
Jack Mosse unpicks the flawed understanding of national debt that has pervaded the Conservative leadership contest and Tory economic policy for a number of years
As Liz Truss vows to crackdown further on union action and the cost of living crisis escalates, Josiah Mortimer reports on the prospects of a general strike
From climate change to the cost of living, ordinary people are being forced to compensate for an administration in paralysis, says Lisa Young
While the Conservative leadership election drags on, local newspaper coverage reveals widespread closures of cafes and restaurants, threatening the recovery of the high street, reports Sian Norris
Brexit is compounding, not relieving, the UK’s slurry of economic and environmental problems, says Rachel Morris
Taj Ali reports on the ‘Enough is Enough’ campaign, that is attempting to give a voice to those suffering from the worst excesses of the cost of living crisis
AV Deggar argues that the Conservative Party’s beliefs about a work-shy population echo a bygone age
If the Conservative leadership frontrunner gets her way and imposes new laws on trade unions it won’t stop wildcat and unofficial strikes, warn union sources
Voters were promised better-funded public services and stronger employment rights after Brexit – Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are now offering us the opposite, reports Adam Bienkov
With Boris Johnson’s demise, the true believers of the Brexit revolution have sensed their opportunity, writes Jon Bloomfield
The ‘no recourse to public funds’ condition means migrant people who are destitute or on very low incomes will not be entitled to Government help
The Conservative frontrunner’s belief that Londoners simply “graft” harder than people outside the capital does not stand up against evidence on regional inequalities, says Sam Bright
A leaked recording of the Tory leadership frontrunner deriding UK workers for lacking “graft” gives the game away about her real views of the British people, reports Adam Bienkov
Sam Bright tracks the penalties imposed by regulators on the UK’s dominant energy providers
Chris Grey explores the various claims around Freeports and Charter Cities – and whether they are an extreme manifestation of a libertarian Brexit
The number one priority of the frontrunner to succeed Boris Johnson, is to protect the bottom lines of energy bosses pushing millions into poverty, reports Adam Bienkov
Economics professors Muhammad Ali Nasir and David Spencer explain why wage hikes do not herald economic disaster
With the UK heading for recession, the two remaining candidates to become Britain’s next Prime Minister are committed to the same failed economic theories that created the current crisis, writes Thomas Perrett
Despite the warm words of Truss and Sunak, Boris Johnson’s flagship policy is set for the scrapheap, contends Sam Bright
The rhetoric and the reality of post-Brexit Britain are more distant than ever, notes Rachel Morris
As the cost of living crisis mounts, Rowland Atkinson and Andrew Baker look at the stagnation of wages and the rising polarisation between renters and owners of assets
Pete Syme investigates the countries and companies that have taken a slice of our national assets
The absence of credible solutions to the economic crisis is one of the most galling features of the Tory leadership contest, says James Meadway
In politics and economics, the Conservative Party has rigged the system in favour of an entrenched elite, contends Sam Bright
In the first of a series exploring the post-2008 economic realities, Richard Murphy analyses the failure of the financial system to invest in productive and sustainable development, and what incentives could transform it
TJ Coles reviews the ways in which leaving the EU has made Britain poorer