New Economics Foundation

Summary 1. Fishing is a totemic issue for brexit. Its politics matter Few issues better symbolise the politics of Britain’s exit from the EU (Brexit) than fisheries. Fishing, like the sea itself, is...

Brexit is almost certain to hit fishing communities hard, new research suggests Boats without quota, processors, retailers and wholesalers will be worse off under nearly all Brexit scenarios Brexit could lead to an increase in overfishing, with disastrous environmental and economic results New Economics Foundation urges the UK government to pursue co-operative approach to Brexit...

In The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald’s account of a long walk he took in Suffolk, he writes: “It’s hard to imagine now… that the white flecks of the windmills lit up the landscape just as a tiny...

The single market. The customs union. Making a deal with the EU or leaving on WTO terms. There’s a lot of jargon to contend with when we’re discussing the economics of Brexit. Sometimes it feels like...

Among G7 economies, Britain’s financial system is by far the least resilient to future shocks New Economics Foundation’s ‘Financial System Resilience Index’ measures stability across six factors...

It is now almost ten years since the onset of the global financial crisis, but its impacts are still being felt across the UK. Thanks to weaknesses and irresponsibility in the financial sector, millions of ordinary people were left to pay a huge price. And while measures were introduced – in the UK and other developed economies – to ensure that the tragic human cost of the crisis does...

Statement in response to today’s court decision dismissing Uber’s appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that it should treat its drivers as “workers” who are entitled to basic rights such as the...

Up and down the country, there are people who so terrify the multinational chemicals giant Ineos that it went to court to take out an injunction against them, without even knowing their names....

It’s a year since irony ended and the nightmare began. I still struggle to associate the name Donald J. Trump with the office of US President. I’d prefer to keep pretending that his unsuitability for...

This September, Transport for London announced it would revoke Uber’s licence because it was not a ‘fit and proper’ company to run taxi services in the capital. The prospect of Uber losing its licence...