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Our essential books of 2014: This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
23 December 2014
This Changes Everything is arguably the most important non-governmental contribution to a crucial year for climate change, building up to UN talks in Paris in 2015. To Klein, climate change is a wake-up call to civilisation. In the face of...
Continue ReadingOur essential books of 2014: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
22 December 2014
The dramatic impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is partly down to the sheer reach of its raw material. The product of years of research conducted in partnership with other scholars, including Tony Atkinson at Oxford, this...
Continue ReadingFive things we learned about the economy in 2014
22 December 2014
1. This is a new kind of recovery When is a recovery not a recovery? This year the UK’s growth has taken off in a way quite unlike the aftermath of previous recessions. Your view of the performance of the economy in...
Continue ReadingFive things we learned about tax in 2014
22 December 2014
Tax is one of the most important relationships between the citizen and the state. But despite its centrality, honest and rational political debate around tax has remained taboo this year. 2015 will see the fruits of a new Fabian programme...
Continue Reading EconomyUkip need to be exposed, not ignored
22 December 2014
Several years have passed since Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls spent their Christmas Eve trying, and failing, to find Argos in Basingstoke, where they were spending the festive period with Cooper’s family. Having twice circumnavigated the town’s ringroad through grid-locked...
Continue Reading Immigration / Public ServicesBanking reform from the bottom up
18 December 2014
Like most people of my generation my first memory of banks wasn't a bank but a building society. But those soon disappeared after the deregulation reforms of the 1980's. After that they weren’t something I paid much attention to other...
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