Economy

Could a Minister for Hospitality save our pubs?

The support being offered to the hospitality sector is far from adequate, and many businesses are falling through the cracks

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Bidding for bribes

Inviting local areas to bid for central government money is a terrible idea

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Don’t expect Biden to cut the ballooning US deficit

Under Biden, the US will continue amassing a huge deficit. Is it manageable?

Columns
Bursting the bubbles

Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?

Books
Can British manufacturing recover?

Will Covid lead to a rebalancing of the British economy or will normal service resume? Graham Stewart discusses with John Mills

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The Nine Billion Names of Boris

Calm, Zen, Relaxed, Unfussed, Unagitated, Boris, Flip, Cripes, Oo-er

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Fewer universities, more skills

The government needs to expand further education while reducing higher education

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An economic warning to the curious

There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes

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In praise of the Great British pub

Let us sip, slurp and quaff this weekend, and do our bit to keep the pub trade going

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FDR is no hero – he shouldn’t be Boris’s role model

Is Boris’s ‘Rooseveltian’ revival really what the country needs?

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