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Why is Reform UK threatening Green areas with migrant detention centres?

‘Grotesque’ policy is seen as effort to sharpen dividing lines before local elections

The Guardian - UK · May 5

Jennie Formby, Labour’s former general secretary, says she has joined Greens

Exclusive: Formby, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn who quit role in 2020, says Labour is now ‘in hock to corporate sponsors’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22

‘Doge of the left’ could save UK taxpayers up to £30bn, says new green thinktank

Report by Verdant says rooting out waste, fraud and tax avoidance would save money that could help improve public services

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25

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From energy bills to petrol and groceries: How the Iran-US war could affect cost of living in the UK

The impacts of the conflict have been compared to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which pushed prices up for British households

The Independent UK · Mar 10

Nigel Farage blasted over 'grotesque' plan to axe indefinite leave to remain

NIGEL Farage’s plan to axe indefinite leave to remain (ILR) has been slammed as “grotesque” ...

The National (Scotland) · Sep 22, 2025

Ex-Nato chief warns Labour's defence spending hike will be 'painful'

THE former head of Nato has warned that Labour’s defence spending boost will be “painful”.

The National (Scotland) · Aug 12, 2025

Labour defence spending 'one of most inefficient ways' to create jobs, experts say

DEFENCE spending is “one of the most inefficient ways to create jobs” in Scotland and across the rest of the UK, experts have said ...

The National (Scotland) · Aug 4, 2025

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Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work

It’s hard to say if the president truly knows what he’s doing. But there is a precedent for the US causing short-term chaos and reaping long-term gain, says economist James Meadway

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2025

How Covid changed the British state

Surge in national debt and NHS backlog altered the economy and expectations around crisis management

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025

Soaring grocery prices helped Trump to victory. The climate crisis is only going to make this worse

From olive oil to butter, extreme weather is pushing up the cost of living and having a dramatic political impact. Economists need a solution, says podcast host James Meadway

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024

‘These ideas are incredibly popular’: what is degrowth and can it save the planet?

The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2024

Talk of a soft landing for the global economy is premature – many dark scenarios are lurking

Big obstacles to rising living standards remain, from populism to protectionism, military conflict to the climate crisis, and China to Wall Street

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024

‘We can’t pretend the ecological crisis is separate’: the economist thinking differently about climate breakdown

James Meadway, once a Labour adviser and now a podcast host, says the separation between climate and economy has to end

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2024

Rishi Sunak’s empty boasting about ‘halving inflation’ can’t hide his economic failures

It is falling global energy prices that have led to a fall in inflation, rather than anything the prime minister has done, says James Meadway, the host of the Macrodose podcast

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2023

Why are millennials so turned off by the Tory party?

Amid housing crisis, post-Brexit drag and hardline migration rhetoric, most 25- to 40-year-olds think party deserves to lose next election

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2023

The Bank of England is wrong again: workers aren’t to blame for inflation

Why should we ‘accept we’re worse off’, when corporate greed and global shortages are really to blame, asks James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

Tory austerity ‘has cost UK half a trillion pounds of public spending since 2010’

Thinktank says 2010-2019 spending would have been £540bn higher had previous plans been stuck to

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2023

Bad economics at the BBC enabled Tory austerity and its aftermath – and it knows as much

Too many journalists don’t get ‘basic economics’, an internal review says. Imagine the effect that’s had on UK politics, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

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The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2023

The case for a new Keynesianism when Labour returns to power

Letters: Carol Wilcox and Tony Brauer respond to an article by James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2023

Keir Starmer may win power, but he won’t be able to turn the UK around on the cheap

A Labour government is destined to fail unless it pledges to increase spending on public services, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2022

The Tories’ ‘fiscal black hole’ is a statistical fiction – let’s have a reality check

The government’s own arbitrary target is the source of this ‘shortfall’, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022

We’re living in an age of permanent crisis – let’s stop planning for a ‘return to normal’

Current plans seem foolish when we know that shocks such as global heating aren’t going away, says Progressive Economy Forum director James Meadway

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2022

Sunak’s package fails to tackle the true cause of UK inflation: shameless profiteering

The fact is, the price cap on energy bills is still going up – and this is a political choice, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

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