Budget

We need more honesty in Westminster policy making

We must escape our doom loop of taxing and spending

At least British politics appears to amuse our politicians

The world’s most powerful men are disturbingly unstable

It was an austere Spring Statement for an austere government

The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state

It is going to fuel youth unemployment

It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?

This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums

Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions