Like so many small-scale fleets across the UK, fishers in Eastbourne have been squeezed to the point of extinction. That’s why four years ago, local fisherman Graham Doswell decided it was time for the...
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Figures released today by the Office of National Statistics show that UK wealth grew nearly 10% during 2016. The largest rise on record, this puts the UK’s total net worth at £9.8 trillion. But far...
Read More »New research: London’s transport gig economy grows by 82% since 2010
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Banging on about oil and gas when you’re supposed to be talking about low-carbon energy is like talking about the wonders of lard when you’re meant to be getting people to eat more greens. The...
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By 2046 almost one in four people will be 65 or older. So it is right that the Government’s industrial strategy, published this week, sets out as one of its four ‘Grand Challenges’ to meet the needs of...
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The relationship between Brexit and democracy is fraught. For many, the vote to leave the European Union was a moment in which ‘the people’ were finally able to make their voice heard. But where are...
Read More »The rhetoric is fine but why is this industrial strategy so underwhelming?
Having any industrial strategy is probably a good thing, and having one that acknowledges the woeful inequalities that exist between different parts of the UK is better still. So what’s the problem...
Read More »Ten years on: rethinking money after the financial crisis
This event will be streamed live on Wednesday 29 November, 6-8.30pm. [embedded content] Post-financial crisis regulation has failed to address deep-seated problems with the processes of money and credit creation and allocation in advanced economies. This event will propose alternatives, drawing on examples from the past, the present and also looking forward at the opportunities...
Read More »Weekly Economics Podcast: Budget Special 2017
Chancellor Philip Hammond got out his red box again last week, to let us know how the country’s finances are – or aren’t – holding up, and what the Government’s going to be doing with its money this...
Read More »Precarious labour strikes back
2017 has been a big year for union action on precarious work: United Voices of the World and Justice for Workers successfully campaigned to bring all cleaners in-house at the LSE and SOAS universities,...
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