Gary Gibbon
May to succeed Cameron as PM on Wednesday
David Cameron whizzed round to Parliament when Theresa May got back from Birmingham and at 3.20pm met her there in the office that will very soon be hers.
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Gary Gibbon
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Paul Mason
Mark Carney’s last chance saloon warning on the global economy
Last night Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, issued a stark warning about the future of capitalism.
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Paul Mason
The great global slowdown: what’s next?
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
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Paul Mason
John McDonnell: what will Corbynomics look like?
The appointment of John McDonnell as shadow chancellor was the clearest signal Jeremy Corbyn could have sent. At the heart of the shadow cabinet there will be a group that buys Corbynomics.
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Team Corbyn: who’s who?
Labour’s new shadow cabinet has been announced. Who is on the frontbench alongside Jeremy Corbyn and who is advising him behind the scenes?
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Labour leadership hustings: the key moments
The four contenders clash over immigration, benefits cuts, “making excuses” for Vladimir Putin and the shadow of the Iraq war.
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FactCheck: What will Labour’s next leader do to the economy?
Which Labour leadership candidate would print money? Who wants to build 2 million houses? Who thinks George Osborne might be right about running a surplus?
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Paul Mason
China: danger of an open currency war
China has stunned the world by devaluing its currency twice in two days. Or rather it has stunned that naive part of the world that believed China’s economy was okay.
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Paul Mason
Greece crisis: a failure of economics in the face of politics
The IMF’s report yesterday got swamped amid the gloom, despondency and fractiousness of the Greek crisis. It said, in short, Greece’s debt has become unsustainable.
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Paul Mason
Greece – five pictures of a troubled country
Ahead of a crucial meeting on the Greece debt crisis on Monday, Paul Mason presents a special long-read, offering five pictures of the country.
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Paul Mason
Election 2015: how will seven-party politics work?
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
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Inflation at zero per cent – and now for the bad news
Inflation is no more. The annual inflation rate is zero for the first time on record. So is the dawn of deflation a good or a bad thing?
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Paul Mason
Greek European deal: where are we?
The European deal done six days ago was supposed to stabilise the Greek debt crisis. But the situation in Greece is still critical.
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Paul Mason
Labour, SNP, Greens: could they do business together?
While Labour is tight lipped and ultra-orthodox at present, it is entirely possible to imagine the common ground of a Labour-SNP-Green coalition, or a “supply and confidence” type arrangement.
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Carney: Inflation could fall below zero by spring
The UK could experience negative inflation this spring, warns Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, but he says, if needed, the bank is prepared to cut interest rates to prevent long-term deflation.
