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Across Europe, there has been a rise in the number of women earning the most in their family.
Like Greece and Spain, Portugal endured a bailout and austerity. But it has not seen the rise of a Syriza or Podemos equivalent.
Stormont’s parties refuse to conduct politics in any mode besides crisis mode.
The real age of the rave was the early 90s, when politics and partying combined to extraordinary result. And once again we find ourselves in hard times …
Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
The harshest cuts have yet to happen, but the bite is already being felt.
The debate about museums as businesses is in danger of trumping defences of museums and galleries as public institutions.
Making the NHS a seven-day service would intensify the pressure on the groaning social care system.
Upstarts on the left and right are proving that people of all political leanings want change.
Being poor doesn’t make you a bad parent but families need protective factors to counter the negative ones.
Greece can learn a lot from Africa’s 1980s and 1990s experience of living with structural adjustment (austerity). The damage has been long-lasting – not only on economies, but also directly on people.
The last-minute bailout deal will keep Greece in the common currency, but at a cost of the dream that was the euro.
What might feel like a victory this morning for eurozone leaders and lenders has only served to feed a eurosceptic beast.
The government’s austerity programme hasn’t just put the poor under terrible pressure – it’s actually breached Britain’s international legal obligations.
The deadline for Greece’s latest payment has passed, so why is Syriza pushing ahead with a referendum?
The upcoming emergency budget will offer the chancellor of exchequer, George Osborne, an opportunity to set up his stall as an unofficial candidate to the leadership of the Conservative Party. No other…
Navigating the welfare system is part of the daily work of most health and social care workers – from the therapists advising patients on how to survive a “fitness to work” assessment to the 30% of NHS…
Investment for profit and development should lie at the heart of a solution for the imbalances in Greece and Europe.
Osborne’s experience as chancellor from 2010-2015 should have taught him that he can’t directly control the deficit or surplus.
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