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‘Levelling Up’ Fund Gives £1.25 Billion to Areas that Have Lost £25.5 Billion
Despite favourable newspaper headlines, Rishi Sunak’s spending commitments are still overwhelmed by the legacy of austerity reports Sam Bright
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Big COVID Management Consultancy Winners Fined £101 Million Since 2010
Firms that have won large Coronavirus contracts have paid millions of pounds in fines from Government regulatory bodies in the past decade
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North East Loses Out in Levelling Up Funding Round
Relatively little investment has been directed towards the region, despite its higher levels of deprivation, reveals Sam Bright
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Autumn Budget: Women and Children First?
While there were welcome announcements on family spending and low pay, the Autumn Budget fails to rollback the inequality caused by 11 years of Conservative austerity
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‘A Haven For Dirty Money’: Nearly Half of All Corporate Violations in the Past Decade Committed by Financial Sector
New data analysed by the Byline Intelligence Team shows the extent of fines handed out to the the largest banks – despite financial services contributing less than 7% to the UK economy
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A Winter of Discontent? Maybe. A Frozen Government for Sure
Peter Jukes looks at the differences between the crises of the 1970s and the current state of Brexit Britain – and finds some surprising but chilling echoes
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Taking Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Brexit on Wages
Jonathan Portes analyses Boris Johnson’s claim that curbing immigration should lead to a “high productivity, high wage” economy
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Johnson’s Hypocritical Hand-Outs: How MPs Warp Perceptions of Poverty
The reality of deprivation in Britain is distorted by those who complain about earning more than £80,000 a year and rely on wealthy friends to pay for their holidays, says Maheen Behrana
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A Turning Tide? Johnson’s Campaign to Turn Two Fingers Up at Business Continues
Mike Buckley reflects on the Prime Minister’s attempts to distract from the economic plague that the Government has inflicted on the nation
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The Big Political Problem With Boris Johnson’s Wage Pronouncements
The Prime Minister’s latest inaccurate narrative is fraught with potential embarrassments, says Sam Bright
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The Government Must Match Labour’s Ideas on Carbon-Free Steel
Cleaning up the industry will require immediate institutional action, says Iwan Doherty
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Food or Fuel? The Human Cost of the Energy Crisis
Rising gas prices have prompted panic about Brexit, bail-outs and bills – but for poor families and the NHS, this crisis could not come at a worse moment
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The Secretive Courts Standing in the Way of Government Climate Commitments
Investor-State Disputes Settlements cases circumvent the sovereignty of states and neutralise measures to curtail the power of the fossil fuel industry, reports Thomas Perrett
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72% of Voters are Against the Award of Peerages and Honours Following Political Donations, Poll Commissioned by Byline Times Finds
Exclusive polling with independent research company Omnisis reveals that the public are generally disapproving of political donors receiving rewards and access after parting with their cash – with Conservative voters more concerned than Labour
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Political Capture: How Donations Made in the Shadows are Putting Democracy in Danger
An investigation by the Byline Intelligence Team and The Citizens, revealing the profiles of Conservative Party backers in the UK, has exposed how a lack of transparency and the culture of political donations is putting British democracy at risk
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Tory Entitlement: Quarter of Top Conservative Donors have Received Honours or Peerages
An investigation into the governing party’s elite donors by the Byline Intelligence Team and The Citizens reveals that the vast majority received their awards in the same time period as they were gifting significant sums of money
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Johnson’s Conservatives are the Party of Wealth Conservation and Emotional Exploitation
Maheen Behrana explores how the rise in National Insurance to fund the broken social care system reveals how little the public understands about taxes – something the governing party is happy to take advantage of
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Meet Mr Tory: Average Elite Conservative Donor Giving £500,000 is 65-Year-Old White Man Called Michael
A joint investigation by the Byline Intelligence Team and The Citizens reveals the lack of gender and ethnic diversity of elite Conservative donors – raising questions about how it is now the party of hedge funds and oligarchs rather than business and commerce
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The Great Social Care Gold Rush: How Hedge Funds and Private Investors are Distorting the ‘Market’ of People in Need
Katharine Quarmby and Sian Norris dig into the story behind the funding of the social care system, asking: who will benefit from the extra cash?
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The World’s Cheapest Big Mac: What Burgernomics Tells Us About Lebanon’s Economic Crisis
It tastes the same, the packaging’s the same – but the differing costs of a McDonalds Big Mac can hold clues to a country’s economic health, and in Lebanon, the diagnosis isn’t great
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Brexit and the Economy: The Story So Far
Jonathan Portes delves into the data on the economic performance of the UK after its exit from the EU’s single market and customs union on 1 January and assesses the real-world impact of these new trade barriers
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Breaking Taboos: ‘We Need to Talk About Money’
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore speaks to Otegha Uwagba about her new book, which questions why those who have benefitted from financial help are so reluctant to be transparent about it
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Revealed: The Involvement of Palantir and Faculty in the UK Public Sector
Peter Thiel’s Palantir and an AI-company linked to Dominic Cummings combined have won public sector contracts worth over £100 million – including contracts connected to NHS data. Max Colbert reports with The Citizens
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Prominent Conservative Donor Wins Large Contract with Ministry of Justice
Company behind £450,000 donations to the Conservative party awarded a series of emergency Covid-19 work, alongside contract for new prison build, Max Colbert reports
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An Unequal Kingdom: 12 Graphs that Show How We Were Never ‘In This Together’
The Byline Intelligence Team exposes the poverty and inequality that has burgeoned during 11 years of Conservative rule
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UK’s Outsourcing of COVID Response Has Cost More Than the GDP of 140 Countries
The Byline Intelligence Team puts the Government’s vast private sector procurement effort into context
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Pandemic Crisis in Childcare Threatens Gender Equality
As workplaces prepare to re-open and furlough ends, Sian Norris reports on how the loss of childcare places on offer across the UK puts women’s equality at risk
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Fast Food Giants Latest Sector to Report Brexit-related Staffing Concerns
McDonalds joins restaurants, farmers and the meat processing industry with concerns that ‘reduced access to overseas labour would present a challenge to our business,’ reports Sian Norris
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How Will Johnson Get the Economy Out of the Mess Created by Brexit and COVID?
The UK’s economic future is less certain than it has been at any time since the 2008 financial crisis, says Mike Buckley
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Exhaustion Sustains Authoritarianism: Why the Government Will Never Allow a Four-Day Week
Maheen Behrana explains how Britain has longer working hours than any EU country and why the Conservative Party is so rigidly wedded to keeping it that way
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The Problems Plaguing the UK’s Post-Brexit Trade Deals
Sam Bright summarises the key issues with the UK’s attempts to forge new economic alliances after leaving the world’s largest trading bloc
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The Colombia Uprisings Offer a Warning About Post-Pandemic Unrest Across the Developing World
Protestors are facing physical and sexual violence amid police crackdowns of anti-Government dissent, reports Nadja Sieniawski
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What Does Boris Johnson’s Great ‘Levelling-Up’ Really Look Like?
Jonathan Portes examines the real forces at play, which will require addressing, as part of the Prime Minister’s flagship policy for his new ‘Red Wall’ constituencies
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Where The Axe Fell: The Impact of Austerity on Labour Areas
As we calculate Labour’s electoral losses, we need to look at the uneven impact of spending cuts over the last decade, says Sian Norris
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What Austerity-Hit Local Councils Can Learn from Preston’s Community Wealth-Building Model
In the midst of the Coronavirus crisis, a local investment model has taken on added significance, reports Taj Ali
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All Money and No Morals: Cash Threatens to Corrupt English Football – Again
The recent history of the beautiful game has been defined by destructive greed, and the proposed European Super League is yet another example, says Adrian Goldberg
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Political Links to Firm that Prompted Greensill Demise
Sam Bright reports how a former Downing Street director of communications, a diplomat and an ex-First Minister of Wales all have ties to the company that worked in tandem with Greensill
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Still Reeling After the Beirut Explosion, Lebanon Is At Breaking Point
The country has been plunged into crisis since the blast, reports Jonathan Fenton-Harvey
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Why has Britain Failed Its Businesses when Other Countries have Protected them from the COVID Crisis?
Mike Buckley reports on how the decisions of other governments to provide more comprehensive support to businesses during the pandemic will likely put their economies in a much stronger position than the UK’s
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Children Are Not Economic Commodities: The Manufactured Terror of Lost Learning
The widespread panic about schooling during the pandemic reveals the rotten assumptions that underpin our education system, says Chris Bagley
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‘Influence Without Power’: How Management Consultants had a Very Profitable Pandemic
As news emerges that the Test and Trace programme budgeted for £438 million to be spent on management consultants, Matthew Gwyther delves into the inner workings of the industry
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Revealed: The Pay Disparities in Social Care
As the Supreme Court rejects an attempt to pay care workers for ‘sleep-in’ shifts, Sian Norris reports on the pay disparities in a highly gendered workforce
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The 1945 Moment: Boris Johnson Should Follow Biden, Not Cameron and Osborne
Austerity failed Britain during the COVID-19 crisis, but the Government has not yet signalled a bold new vision for the UK’s economy, says Jonathan Portes
