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Five things we learned about the economy in 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...

Five things we learned about tax in 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...

Ukip need to be exposed, not ignored

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...

Winter 2014

The big questions the election campaign won’t answer. Martin O’Neill, Charles Clarke, Zoe Williams, Philip Collins, Sonia Sodha and Ann Pettifor talk tax; John McTernan on why foreign policy is missing in action; Fergus Green says Labour can create a green golden age and Yvette Cooper talks to Mary Riddell.

Banking reform from the bottom up

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...

Out of sight

Around 15 years ago a new tribe entered our lexicon: the NEETs, young people who are not in education, employment or training. Reducing their number was a priority for the Labour government of the day. The Social Exclusion Unit was...

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