After a full twenty months of tired heaving, it remains unclear whether the tug of war within government is being won by the Hard Brexit or Soft Brexit supporters. But that isn’t the only divide we’re...
Read More »London workspace doesn’t need to be unaffordable
Try to imagine a London without the small businesses of Portobello Road, Brick Lane, Columbia Road and China Town. Impossible right? Well actually, wrong… For the last six months the New Economics...
Read More »3 challenges the Spring Statement should address
Tomorrow the Chancellor will deliver the newly downplayed Spring Statement, where he will outline the state of the nation’s financial health. It used to be a major fiscal event but this year Philip Hammond has made it clear he doesn’t want anyone getting too excited. There’ll be no red box, and he won’t speak for very long. Most of the time will likely be spent reacting to the latest...
Read More »Weekly Economics Podcast: Why are university lecturers on strike?
Universities up and down the country have been shutting down as lecturers have walked out, arguing that the changes to their pension schemes could leave them thousands of pounds a year worse off in...
Read More »London’s small businesses come together to demand affordable rents
230 small businesses call on London politicians to join them in confronting the capital’s affordable workspace crisis Members of the East End Trades Guild will meet the Hackney and Tower Hamlets mayors on Tuesday and ask them to commit to their agenda More than 200 small business owners are coming together to demand that local politicians recognise London’s workspace crisis and commit...
Read More »NEF in the news, March 2018
“For many people, the economy just isn’t working for them”Our chief executive, Miatta Fahnbulleh, appeared on BBC2’s The Daily Politics. She discussed this week’s political stories, including the gender pay gap, possible effects of Brexit on prices, and life expectancy disparities. Watch Houses are seen largely as sources of wealth. And this is what’s wrong with our housing sectorSara...
Read More »Price caps are a plaster on our broken energy market
Five years is a long time in politics, it was only in 2013 that energy price caps were ridiculed by the Conservatives in their campaign against ‘Red Ed’. But as increasing media scrutiny has...
Read More »Housing crisis: big speeches and small steps
Theresa May gave a big speech this week launching the new National Planning Policy Framework consultation. This is the latest attempt by the government to do something about the housing crisis. There...
Read More »IWD2018: 4 examples of fearless women working for change
Emily Scurrah, on Bangladeshi women building small businesses in Birmingham The movement must shine a light on women resisting intersecting layers of oppression – not just the most privileged A disproportionate focus on how professional, wealthy women resist structural oppression is rife within mainstream feminism. But acts of resistance are being undertaken by women all over the...
Read More »The Green Supporting Factor
To create a green and sustainable economy, we need banks’ lending practices to align with sustainable finance goals. To achieve this, the EU parliament and the Committee for Economic and Monetary...
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